It is among the many peculiarities of contemporary feminism that when carried to its logical extreme, as Myers has so ably done here, it ends up making blanket claims of feminine innocence.

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The women's health amendment did not specify age cutoffs Congress wisely left that to doctors, contrary to critics' blanket claims that everything in Obamacare interferes with what doctors do but it was intent on establishing, perhaps against future findings that no screenings are worth a damn, that women will be fully covered for breast cancer screening.

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Since they face the same lawyers over and over, both sides have worked out a simple bargain: In exchange for fees, the plaintiff lawyers sell absolution in the form of a blanket settlement of their claims.

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Although the country's government claims to be fully funded until the middle of next year, it has provided a blanket guarantee to the Irish banks, some of whom are now finding it impossible to borrow money in the markets.

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