{"id":3932,"date":"2007-08-09T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2017-11-25T13:18:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T19:18:29","slug":"what-a-difference-a-good-title-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/09\/what-a-difference-a-good-title-makes\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Difference a Good Title Makes"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a book, perhaps, but certainly on a law<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Cole County judge on Wednesday struck down a new law that would have allowed more midwives to help deliver babies in Missouri.<\/p>\n

Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce declared the law unconstitutional. The law was attached to a health insurance bill, and Joyce said the title of that bill was too narrow to encompass midwifery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good to see that the Post-Dispatch<\/i> is impartial on the matter. On one hand, we have:<\/p>\n

While a doctors’ association praised the ruling, home-birth advocates promised to appeal it. Mary Ueland, who lobbies for midwives’ interests<\/b>, said she was confident the Missouri Supreme Court would uphold the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A dreaded lobbiest<\/i>, a paid spokesperson for a vile interest group<\/i>. And on the other side:<\/p>\n

The state’s largest physicians’ association, the Missouri State Medical Association, has fought the changes. Jeff Howell, the association’s director of legislative affairs<\/b>, said Wednesday that the new law would have “significantly lowered the standard of care for childbirth services, and we just don’t think that’s acceptable.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An association of physicians<\/i> and its director of legislative affairs<\/i>. In other words, a someone who lobbies for physicians’ interests<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the Post-Dispatch<\/i> doesn’t think its readers know any other words or thoughts aside from those it presents to them. Perhaps it’s right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a book, perhaps, but certainly on a law: A Cole County judge on Wednesday struck down a new law that would have allowed more midwives to help deliver babies in Missouri. Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce declared the law unconstitutional. The law was attached to a health insurance bill, and Joyce said the title of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17913,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/17913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}