On Tuesday evening, legislators announced that veto-proof majorities in the House and Senate chambers had reached a compromise to ban elective abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. A group of 10 female legislators—all of whom are Republicans—introduced the bill to the public.
During the last election campaign, a constant theme of newspapers and political commentators was that voters needed to elect Democratic justices to defend abortion rights. Who says? In State v Slagle, 82 NC 653 and 83 NC 630 (1880), the North Carolina Supreme Court found that abortion was a common-law crime from conception. The judges...
Yesterday it was time to slam public opinion surveys for their often shallow and useless conclusions. Today, Gallup’s polling deserves praise for illuminating the abortion debate.
When a new Women's Resource Center was established at my university (UNC-Wilmington), I was concerned that it would serve as more of a resource for feminist professors than for female students. I also suspected that the center would try to advance a "pro-choice" agenda with little tolerance for the views of pro-life advocates.
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