My roomate got attacked by her boyfriend in a jealous rage. He tried to choke her and instead of screaming or resisting she stayed calm and started to caress his face and then kiss him. This calmed him down and they spent the night together. The next morning she was on the train back to her hometown.
Men cannot even start to comprehend what women are sometimes forced to do to merely survive.
She didn’t ignore her kids. Kids shouldn’t be placed in the way of competitive sports. The father could have waited with the kids after the finish line? Why are men like this?
A pharmaceutical company had a new drug - a sedative for pregnant women. Already prescribed across Europe.
Already making millions. They needed one FDA reviewer to sign off on it. They got her.
She was one month into the job. She read the application. The safety data wasn't there. She asked for more. They called her office 50 times. Crowded her office. Called her names she said you wouldn't print. She kept saying no.
Then the reports started coming from Europe. Babies born without arms. Without legs. The one thing connecting their mothers - the drug sitting on her desk waiting for her signature. In America - 17 babies were affected. In Europe -10,000.
Congress passed the Kefauver-Harris Amendment that same year. Every drug in America had to prove it was safe before reaching a single patient. Because of her. Her name was Frances Oldham Kelsey. Her acceptance letter had said Dear Mr. Oldham. They hought she was a man.
If justice were carried out properly, by executing pedophiles, he wouldn't have been able to taunt the mother of the girl he kidnapped and raped to the point where she was forced to take matters into her own hands. She did what the law failed to do, and she delivered justice.