by Amaury Nora The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate of any country in the industrialized world; Texas has the highest teen pregnancy rate (63 births per 1,000 females ages […]
Why are we so afraid?
We were afraid long before 9/11. As so many have observed, fear causes us to trade freedom for security, real or perceived. Fear makes us sheep, a lesson that’s not lost on […]
Cult of the Fetus
By Rori Black Using only the third veto in his 6 years of presidency, Bush shot down legislation to expand federally funded stem cell research. The bill would have allowed research using […]
Hypocrisy and religion
I firmly believe that hypocrisy is fundamental to being a human being. I suspect that everyone reading this has, at one point or another in their lives, done something that ran counter […]
National Prevent Teen Pregnancy Day
By Rori Black Today, May 2, is Prevent Teen Pregnancy Day; a good day to remember that abstinence-only education is a miserable failure. One billion taxpayer dollars have been given to a […]
No abortion/breast cancer link
By Rori Black Despite claims by anti-choice groups, a new 10-year study has concluded, once again, that having an abortion does not increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer. Researchers base the […]
Abortion And Gun Control: The 2008 Litmus Test
By Martin Bosworth Events of such magnitude as the Virginia Tech shootings and the Supreme Court upholding the partial-birth abortion ban have consequences both immediate and distant. Like ripples in a pond, […]
SCOTUS Upholds “Partial Birth” Abortion Law
By Rori Black Today the Supreme Court upheld the misnomered “partial birth” abortion ban implemented in 2003. While the bill itself is named The Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003, it refers […]
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