Black life is fragile, and strict abortion bans are putting even more lives at risk. Today, the story of one woman desperate to become a mother who nearly lost her life when she was turned away from the hospital after serious complications with her pregnancy, and an OB-GYN, and why these...
How a New Study on Premature Babies Could Influence the Abortion Debate.abortionfetushealthcarePoliticsprematurebabypro-choicepro-liferesearchPro-life advocates say the research supports their argumentsGrayElizaEBSCO_AspTime.com
And he talks about how in the year 1 31 BC a Roman sensor proposed that the state make marriage compulsory because so many men, particularly in the upper classes, preferred to stay single. They would sexually engage with prostitutes or with other men, and they wanted nothing to do with wo...
There’s an added wrinkle, too, which is what I hear from so many of my female students: Before they’re legal to order a cocktail, they feel pressure to decide on their life’s path: Choose the right major! Get an internship! Build a resume! Before it’s too late. But anyway, ...
We had many long talks deep into the night discussing how love can be real and true only when two people who are complete within themselves come together. True love rejects the notion that the other exists solely to please you. True love is therefore not threatened when the other displeases...
So, that’s our origin story. Thirty years today. We’ll go eat a good supper tonight and celebrate. I’m trying to figure out what to do next year for our thirtieth wedding anniversary, and I hope I can come up with something good. But until then, love y’all and keep your feet...
I knew instantly, as soon as I discovered I was pregnant, that I wanted an abortion, there was no question. I wanted nothing to do with the fathers of the babies, both of whom I had dated and had raped me, and one of whom otherwise abused me regularly. I knew that if I had a...
Many stories prominently featuring a heroine add rape as part of her tragic past. In the classic Red Sonja comic and its 1985 movie, Sonja’s family is killed and she is raped at the hands of mercenaries. She then becomes a warrior to exact revenge. While a goddess who demands chastity...
Leon, Just one of many ways in which it’s absurd to view the unborn as a person. That’s doesn’t necessarily have any implication for the abortion issue, but it’s just silly to pretend the unborn are viewed as “people”.
It was a huge crowd. Old, young, babies in carriages. Many drinking beer bought from the tiny pub on the edges of the square. Beer they held carefully as they picked their way through the rest of us to find a cobblestone or two of their own. There were a few relaxed guards at the...