Pro-life politicians are the world’s best salesmen. They sell the fantasy of every baby born perfect, with 10 fingers and 10 toes and scrunched pink faces and chubby little fists. […]
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Tennessee’s strict abortion law stopping woman from having more children
by Jennifer Shinall Over the New Year’s holiday, my husband and I received the surprise of our lives: a positive pregnancy test. The pregnancy was unplanned, but very welcome. Getting […]
Anti-choice activists pushing toward more extreme ideas
The war over abortion rights has moved from the sidewalks in front of medical clinics to pharmacies and mailboxes. The Food and Drug Administration’s loosening of restrictions on abortion pills […]
Guest essay: A pro-lifer’s argument against overturning Roe v. Wade
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s a perilous moment for our rights
by Robin Abcarian Last week, I got an earful from readers who were angry that I defended peaceful protests at the homes of three conservative Supreme Court justices, who with […]
