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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable

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Let’s Not Bring Back Smoking

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Answering the Early-Morning Phone Call

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The Children We Are Asked to Forget

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The Mother of all Misdirects

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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable

    Tierra Walker’s tragic death was preventable, but not because of the reason you’d think. The 37-year-old Texas resident was allegedly denied an abortion after being diagnosed with preeclampsia during a complicated pregnancy.   Despite the sensational headlines, the case...
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Virginia’s Radical Abortion Amendment Could Violate Parental Rights

  Virginians are going to the polls to vote on an amendment to their state constitution that enshrines abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy in the Old Dominion. Even people who favor abortion, however, should vote “no” on Amendment 1, the “Right to...
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Let’s Not Bring Back Smoking

  I grew up in the Great Age of Smoke. Wherever you went, you could not escape the puffs in public and private. People lighted up in offices, stores, restaurants, hospitals, doctors’ offices, indoor arenas, the back of buses, and even while sitting in the last rows on...
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Answering the Early-Morning Phone Call

  I have made them, and I have received them, and chances are, dear reader, you also have done so. The phone lights up—you recognize the caller, but it’s very odd these days for a phone call to arrive without first a text or an appointment. So of course you pick it up....
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NEW YORK STATE’S EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT: A Revolutionary Camel

    A camel is a horse designed by a committee. Once a camel gets its nose into your tent, the rest of its body will soon follow, thus wrecking your tent. [1]   Introduction Rushed through the NYS legislature with little public debate,[2] an “Equal Righ...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Forty Years after Roe: Onward We March

   “No issue in U.S. history has produced such an impressive and sustained outpouring...
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The Slide to Auschwitz

  In July the City Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted to petition...
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Abortion Looming in Ireland

When last I wrote for this publication, Ireland had been through a huge national and...
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The Long Road of Eugenics: From Rockefeller to Roe v. Wade (Fall, 2004)

  The infamous Roe v. Wade1 decision relies directly and indirectly on the work...
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