Tag: Roe v Wade
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Was ‘harm’ caused on Christmas Day?
We’re six days from the greatest unintended birth of all time! It has been 18 months since the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health reversed Roe v Wade — putting the abortion issue back in the public square, where it belongs. We need to argue this issue out. When does human life…
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Trump’s mule-skinner blues coming to a theater near you
Just wow, if the U.S. Supreme Court actually is about to overturn Roe v. Wade and its companion Planned Parenthood v. Casey. We agree that Roe was “wrongly decided.” Courts cannot legislate desired outcomes by judicial fiat. The actual decision won’t be announced until summer but its impact on every federal and state election —…
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‘Because of the abortion I didn’t have …’
‘… I didn’t go to Yale.’ As the Supreme Court deliberates a challenge to Roe v Wade, the New York Times files its amicus curiae brief for NARAL with a first-person account of a mother who regrets NOT having an abortion! It’s a counter-factual to the regret most abortions evoke. The Times’ essayist apologizes to…
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In re: Abortion
If you think our politics is boiling over now …! The U.S. Supreme Court today begins hearing arguments on an abortion case arising from the state of Mississippi. We’re 48 years removed from Roe v. Wade, the court decision that overturned law in the states to find a right hidden in the “penumbra” of the…