Category: Abortion
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Free college and nationally guaranteed abortion?
‘Abominations’ abound! Blaska was editor in chief of his college newspaper in 1970. (We’ll wait while you do the math.) It was three years before Roe v Wade but well after The Pill. Blaska’s girlfriend accompanied her friend J. to Chicago for an illegal, back alley, late-term abortion. It wasn’t J.’s first abortion; the poor…
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What does the sonogram show?
The Supreme Court building is barricaded! Like Boss Tweed said of Thomas Nast’s devastating editorial cartoons: “Stop those damn pictures.” Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have…
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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…