Tonya Baker Nelson, executive director of A Hand of Hope Pregnancy Resource Center in Wake County, outlines some of the numbers associated with unplanned pregnancies in North Carolina. Nelson delivered these remarks during a presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society July 27, 2009. To watch full-length presentations of John Locke Foundation events, click here.
Opinion
Mass shootings and valuing human life
The tragic death of five shooting victims in Raleigh should give us an extended pause. First, it should remind us of the immense value of life. For the ideologues, politics is and will remain the sole focus of the shooting. In fact, for many, frantic calls for gun control inevitably become the only solution. Yet,...