by Hollis Lewis Recently the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the long-standing case Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal throughout the United States. This ruling will allow […]
Tag: abortion
Progress has lurched backward
This is not just another setback. Anyone who’s lived long enough has seen the Supreme Court issue a ruling they didn’t like. This is not that. No, what made the […]
Can America rebound after this?
by Sharon Grigsby What already has been a terrible week for democracy ended in the darkest of days with the Supreme Court decision that the right to abortion, upheld for […]
My wife’s abortion was a painful choice
Now, as a father, I worry my daughter won’t get to choose by John Caragozian In 1997, my wife Janie and I welcomed our first child, a healthy daughter born […]
Abortion poses major risks for Black Americans
by Jay Ambrose In the loud, raucous Roe v. Wade debate, we’ve heard a lot about the overreaching sacrifices women can face when having unwanted babies and about their rights […]
Welcome to Gilead
“We had choices then.” – June“Now you have respect. You have protection. You can fulfill your biological destinies in peace.” – Fred“Biological destiny?” – June“Children. What else is there to […]
June 25 letters to the editor
The Trump/McConnell court dismantling rights When Donald Trump was in office, he and Mitch McConnell made three lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court. McConnell went so far as to defy […]
The Janes: ‘We thought it was over’
It opens with a woman’s voice and a black screen. “I had no other options,” she says. “I wanted it over with.” Then you see her. White, gray-haired, maybe somewhere […]
May 29 letters to the editor
Will history repeat without Roe v. Wade? In 1944-45, Helen Cooper was a first-year teacher in Cincinnati when she told her seventh-graders their classmate had died from a “botched up” […]
Make ‘impregnators’ pay a fair share
by Rob Okun Long before a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion revealed that by summer Roe v. Wade will likely be overturned, only pregnant people bore the burden of pregnancy […]
