MSNBC.com is reporting, "a leading group of pediatricians says teenagers need access to birth control and emergency contraception, not the abstinence-only approach to sex education favored by religious groups and President Bush." I think both sides are wrong. It's a...
Women’s Rights
PC Empowerment: Empowering Women By Leaving Them Defenseless
George Mason University is dedicated to empowering women. Take, for example, the "Turn Off the Violence Week" event that ran October 3rd-9th. The event, like similar events offered on college campus throughout the country, was a partnership between Mason's women's...
Ban on “Partial-Birth” Abortion Violates Women’s Rights
“Fetal Rights” are a gimmick to destroy a woman’s individual rights.
Ban on “Partial-Birth” Abortion Would Be a Blow to Individual Rights
The anti-abortionists’ war against “partial-birth” abortions is a smokescreen to ban all abortions.
Christianity’s Contribution to Women
American women were baptized into the workforce decades ago. Today they're running their own businesses, launching their own product lines, are managers, directors, VPs and CEOs. That's why the recent Southern Baptist Convention's in-fight over the issue of women in...
Virginia’s Latest Threat to Reproductive Rights
Yes Virginia, at least for the moment, you have access to contraception. Virginia State Delegate Robert Marshall (R-13th) has ignited a firestorm on college campuses in the Old Dominion by advocating that the dispensing of emergency contraception, a.k.a. morning after...
The Grand Fraud: Affirmative Action for Women
Fraud is as pervasive in arguments for affirmative action for women as in arguments for affirmative action for blacks. In fact, a whole fraudulent history has been concocted to explain the changing economic position of women over the years. In the feminist movement's...
Bush’s Attack on Partial-Birth Abortions Is a Scheme to Outlaw all Abortions
In his State of the Union address, President Bush demanded an end to “the practice of partial-birth abortion.”
Abortion and the Left: All the Rights But One
Last month marked the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion case which overturned a Texas ban on the procedure. To commemorate that anniversary, the well-known abortion rights group NARAL hosted a public event that...
Abortion Rights are Pro-Life
Thirty years after Roe V. Wade, no one defends the right to abortion in fundamental, moral terms, which is why the pro-abortion rights forces are on the defensive. Abortion-rights advocates should not cede the terms "pro-life" and "right to life" to the...
A Physician Comments on Abortion and the Morning After Pill
I was recently confronted in the Emergency Department with a situation I rarely encounter: a woman requesting "the morning after pill." Since I practice in a largely conservative state, for a few minutes I introspectively debated whether I should provide her with such...
Race, Sex, Class & Tiger Woods
The ancient Scottish game has expanded in popularity steadily since the simultaneous rise of Arnold Palmer and television coverage of the PGA Tour in the 1950s; in recent years the game has seen increased participation at all professional and amateur levels, and much...
Sexism in Hollywood?
Does sexism explain the "underrepresentation" of women in Hollywood? "If you look at the number of women working behind the scenes," said Martha Lauzen, a San Diego State University professor, "they're dramatically underrepresented (emphasis added)." Does sexism...
A Kindler, Gentler…Less-Fit Military
Walk, don't run. That's an order for the service men and women of U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Miami. Their weekly fitness runs were terminated this past August when a female officer claimed they were "demeaning." According to media reports, the officer...
Pat Robertson Supports Forced Abortions in China, But Opposes Voluntary Abortions in America
In a CNN interview on April 16, 2001, [Pat] Robertson, the founder of the Christian Coalition and head of the Christian Broadcasting Network, was asked how he reconciles his support for close ties with China with Beijing's ruthless one-child policy, which has forced...
President Bush’s Contradictory Stance on Abortion
President Bush's stance on abortion is and will remain a concern to the advocates of individual rights. He holds a convoluted position that straddles the intellectual fence between the pro- and anti-abortion groups. He believes abortion is wrong--except when it isn't:...
Men Are Not From Mars and Women Are Not From Venus
Q: I observe much "male-bashing" in today's America, and I also observe that it has become widely acceptable. (The "Lifetime" channel on cable TV provides one poignant example of this). I don't mean the usual, superficial "well-that's-men-for-you" sort of criticism of...
Pharmaceutical Butchers of Beijing
Boycott this! Boycott that! Fill in the blank: Grapes. Diamonds. Tobacco. Wal-Mart. Nike. Nestle. Denny's. Disney. McDonald's. Burma. Nigeria. South Africa. For every politically incorrect product, corporation, and location under the sun, there is a left-wing consumer...
Paternal Government and the Abortion Pill
The abortion pill, the controversial RU-486, is now allowed by the FDA to be sold on the market. How nice of them. President Clinton insists the delay was purely scientific, and not political. Will this man's capacity for lying never exhaust itself? Of course the...
The Abortion Pill: Birth Control the Hard Way
While the FDA's delayed approval of the "Abortion Pill" RU-486 (which will be sold in America as mifepristone), is generally a good sign for the recognition of abortion rights, the conditions that the FDA has placed on its use raise serious concerns about the...
Sex and Beer Versus The Government: The Disease of Bureaucracy
Some months ago MSNBC.com reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate raising the state tax on a six-pack of beer by 20 cents could reduce the nation's gonorrhea rate by almost 9 percent.1How are beer and a sexually transmitted disease...
Supreme Court Should Protect Right to Abortion in Current “Partial-Birth” Abortion Case
“Partial-birth” abortion, most commonly known as intact dilation and extraction (D&X), is designed primarily to be used in the case of 5- and 6-month-old fetuses that are dying, malformed, or threaten the woman’s health or life.
Abortion: When Do Rights Begin?
Individual rights begin at birth, with the creation of a new, separMorality is an issue of rationality, and a woman who becomes pregnant on a whim, then capriciously chooses an abortion, is as immoral and irrational as someone who buys an American flag and then burns it.ate human being. Rights are a concept applicable only to individual, actual human beings, not a merely potential one.
George W. Bush’s Contradictory Stand on Abortion
George W. Bush holds a most contradictory stand on abortion. Earlier this decade he said: "I do not like abortions. I will do everything in my power to restrict abortions." Yet when asked if he would seek a constitutional ban on all abortions, he replied in the...
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