Opinion

SB20 is positive step on informed consent for fetal abnormalities

S.B. 20 brings North Carolina abortion regulations in line with most European nations yet is cited by abortion supporters as “extreme.” In a sane world, such hyperbole would be used to describe New York abortion regulation, but we are through the looking glass.   As a neonatologist, I support S.B. 20, but it is somewhat disappointing....

Marty McCaffrey
News

How a NC professor almost built a King/Spock presidential ticket

While a historic political button suggests that the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once ran for president with pediatrician and author Dr. Benjamin Spock, the two never officially declared their candidacy. Anti-Vietnam War activists made the button to suggest the idea that King and Spock run in the 1968 presidential election as third party...

Donna King
Opinion

Is Medicaid properly helping those in the shadows?

Hubert Humphrey once said, “The ultimate moral test of any government is the way it treats three groups of its citizens. First, those in the dawn of life — our children. Second, those in the shadows of life — our needy, our sick, our handicapped. Third, those in the twilight of life — our elderly.”...

Jordan Roberts
Opinion

Freedom is only one generation away from extinction

The sober realization is that socialism is still challenging freedom — even with the irrefutable mountain of evidence of its abject failure and toll on humans everywhere it has been tried. Thanks to John Locke, we have a roadmap for freedom and opportunity that any of us can follow.  Socialism has crippled nations and impoverished...

Jon Pritchett, Garland S. Tucker III

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