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-40 posts tagged "Abortion"
Jack Zinsky | Wednesday, January 23, 2019
With the March for Life taking place last weekend in Washington, D.C., the state of the pro-life movement is thrust to the front of US political conversations. Every year, the March is one of the largest, if not the largest, public demonstrations in the entire country. While contemporary pop culture may portray abortion as an
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Last Wednesday, Planned Parenthood announced Dr. Leana Wen as its new president and successor to Cecile Richards, who had led the organization since 2006. Dr. Wen sports quite the impressive career; she immigrated from China as a child, graduated from college at 18, was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, became an emergency physician and eventually
Eddie Damstra | Thursday, April 19, 2018
A couple of weeks ago, a piece entitled “Pro-Life movement: Where were you?” was published in The Observer. Throughout the letter, the author argued that the Right to Life group on campus should have organized a cohort to attend the March for Our Lives, which took place in major cities to protest the current status
Letter to the Editor | Monday, January 22, 2018
I was excited to read that at least 1,000 members and students of the Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross community went to Washington, D.C. for the 2018 March for Life. To my disappointment, I later read a Viewpoint opposing the March for Life. Take a close look at the billboards surrounding the Michiana
Kelli Smith | Friday, January 19, 2018
Over 1,000 Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross College students and community members will be marching in Washington, D.C. on Friday as part of the 45th March for Life. Founded in 1974 to peacefully protest the Roe v. Wade decision — a Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in the United States — the March
Letter to the Editor | Friday, January 19, 2018
On Dec. 1, Sadie Facile wrote a compelling editorial describing why she chooses to march for life, and her reasons for being a member of Notre Dame Right to Life club. She is absolutely correct in lamenting the one child policy of China and hopefully the resultant horrors of that legislation will never be seen
Letter to the Editor | Friday, December 1, 2017
Every January, Notre Dame Right to Life leads between 700 and 900 students and faculty from Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross to the March for Life in Washington D.C. Each of us marches for many different reasons, but overall, we all are striving to seek an end to abortion. This motive understandably draws
Courtney Becker and Martha Reilly | Monday, November 20, 2017
Editor’s note: This is the third story in a three-part series addressing various political issues and their impact at Notre Dame one year after the 2016 election. Today’s story focuses on issues that most frequently affect women at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. The day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th President of the United
Tom Naatz | Friday, October 6, 2017
The president and founder of Live Action, a non-profit committed to ending abortion, delivered the keynote lecture of Notre Dame Right to Life’s Respect Life Week on Thursday evening in the Carey Auditorium. During the lecture, titled “Transforming the Abortion Debate,” Lila Rose spoke about her work to advance the anti-abortion movement. Rose opened her talk with an
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, August 24, 2017
I normally would not write out a response to a letter to the editor like the one from Mr. Leblanc that was published in the Observer on Monday, February 13th. I generally try not to become too bogged down in this kind of impersonal political debate that takes place over electronic media as opposed to in