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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 has provided some degree of protection to women in the post-Roe v. Wade world. But it also has ...

The pro-life movement needs to be more realistic

by Ramesh Ponnuru For nearly 50 years, those of us who favor legal protection for children in the womb have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow abortion policy to be set through democratic debate. Now we’re having that debate, and strategists in both parties say we’re losing ...

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 to control their own bodies through abortions. Sympathy is widespread, while other, less-discussed issues need ...

May 22 letters to the editor

America needs more civics classes We need more civics, history and government classes in our schools. When you compare the annual federal budgets for education, as a nation, for every $50 we spend on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), we spend 5 cents on civics. After years ...

Pro-life? Get ready to prove it

There’s a sort of … irony? … bittersweetness? … to talking about the almost certain death of Roe v. Wade on Mother’s Day. In part because the increasingly restrictive anti-abortion laws proliferating in state legislatures — including our own — are so focused on the unborn that ...