Sex workers in New York State campaign for decriminalization of their work.

The proposed federal regulation intended to take funds from Planned Parenthood would mainly harm women who are poor or living precariously.

By denying them effective birth control, it would lead to more abortions (somewhat undesirable) and lots of unwanted babies (terrible).

Women who went to Syria and joined PISSI were not necessarily innocent "brides". They often worked for PISSI — just not as soldiers. Some of them changed their minds and could not get away.

Most wild coffee species face extinction. Their loss would interfere with future efforts to breed cultivated coffee to resist or endure other threats.

Many areas that now grow coffee will be unable to grow it by 2100. But what of the areas that can still grow it? Global disaster could put an end to the international trade by which coffee is shipped to other places where people drink coffee, and many of them won't be able to afford such luxuries anyway.

The Iranian ambassador to the UK said that the campaign to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is not helping her release from prison.

That statement seems plausible to me. Too much pressure against a government can motivate its officials to dig in their heels and refuse to make a concession, lest they appear "weak".

However, this doesn't excuse the unjust treatment that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe has received, which failed to respect the rights of criminal defendants.