abortion
Keep politics away from the Super Bowl
Recently, quite a bit of controversy has erupted over a planned advertisement during the Super Bowl next Sunday. This ad, sponsored by Focus on the Family, a conservative pro-life interest group, features college football star Tim Tebow delivering the group’s message through the most personal of stories: that of his birth—or, rather, how his mother’s choice not to abort despite severe illness obviously paid off.
Views differ over SHS policy on who can buy Plan B
With abortion becoming a key issue in the health care debate, issues related to contraception have taken on renewed importance.
Washington University offers emergency contraceptives to its students. However, unlike most sellers the University does not offer Plan B, an emergency contaceptive, to everyone. Student Health Services (SHS) dispenses emergency contraception only to women.
Plan B, [...]
WU apologizes for linking SLU to abortion program
Washington University officials have apologized to Saint Louis University for linking the Jesuit university to an abortion program for physicians. The University listed Saint Louis University (SLU) as collaborating with the Washington University School of Medicine and Planned Parenthood in the Family Planning Fellowship, which teaches medical students how to perform abortions.
Abortion, contraception, and discrimination
Earlier this summer, a friend of mine sent me a message on Facebook alerting me to a document leaked by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “proposing that all forms of birth control, regardless of the manner in which they actually work, should be classified as abortifacients.”
I read it, and thought it was [...]
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