“While we believe that abortion is murder, the taking of an unborn baby’s life,” pro-life advocates have declared since the Roe v. Wade ruling, “we will never charge a woman who has had an abortion with murder.”
But between the Roe decision and 2014, at least 750 women have been charged with murder or other felonies for having miscarriages or attempting self-abortions, according to Duke University’s Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law and the Guttmacher Institute (1).
Last year,…..
My experience conducting dialogues between pro-choice and pro-life activists in the late 1990s reminded me that there is often more variability within groups than between groups.
I heard pro-choice activists acknowledging that abortion destroys human lives. I heard pro-life activists argue about the value and morality of contraception. I heard women identifying themselves as pro-choice say that while they supported a woman’s right to choose, they didn’t think they could go through with an abortion themselves. I heard about…..
Every year, two tribal ceremonies take place within days of each other: the United States’ President’s State of the Union (SOTU) speech and the Super Bowl.
When I was in high school, my sister and I watched our first SOTU speech together. As the president droned on about his accomplishments, she told me how the President’s party rose as one to cheer his accomplishments while the other sat in stony silence.
Since then, the ceremony surrounding this speech has become…..