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-19 posts tagged "Pro-choice"
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, January 24, 2018
“A world where every human life is valued and protected.” This is verbatim the vision outlined on the March for Life’s internet platform. However, it doesn’t take an astute observer to recognize the contradiction that is this vision. The true vision behind March for Life is, instead, a much more exclusive, sexist and downright religiously
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
Natalie Weber | Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Although junior Natasha Reifenberg has advocated for reproductive rights in Latin America and senior Aly Cox is the president of the Notre Dame Right to Life club, the two found common ground in their views towards a criminal ban on abortion in El Salvador and coauthored an editorial expressing their opinion on the issue. Inspired by
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, February 15, 2017
This is a response to John Gadient’s Letter to the Editor, “Being anti-legal abortion does not make you ‘pro-life,’” which ran in The Observer on Friday. The Women’s March on Washington occurred on the day after President Trump’s inauguration, which happened a few months after the United States held a fair and free election that put
Letter to the Editor | Monday, February 13, 2017
In Mr. John Gadient’s letter to the editor published Feb. 11, he expressed the opinion that “a woman has a right to make decisions about her own body. … At the same time, I believe that as a society, we should strive to reduce the number of abortions.” This is a familiar formulation: both Presidents
Letter to the Editor | Friday, February 10, 2017
On the day following Donald Trump’s inauguration, women around the world organized in protest. It has been reported that the Women’s March was the largest demonstration in U.S. history, with nearly three million people participating in cities across the country. Though the march was a success in the eyes of many, there was still some
Megan Uekert | Thursday, February 2, 2017
As a college freshman, my religious beliefs motivated me to attend the March for Life sponsored by Saint Mary’s College. As a junior, I attended the Women’s March in D.C. to fight for social, political and economic equality of women and men. From experience, the two marches cannot rival each other, yet there has been
Sydney Doyle | Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Julie Hanlon Rubio, a professor at St. Louis University, spoke Tuesday night at Saint Mary’s about relations between Catholicism, politics and finding common ground. Rubio’s lecture highlighted the obstacle of an increasing polarity brought on by social media influences and the current presidential race. Rubio said that within this country, and even within Catholic communities, the
Devon Chenelle | Monday, April 18, 2016
Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “A Brave New World” is increasingly found to track more closely to 21st century life’s worst features than does the other great dystopian vision, “1984,” as Huxley’s portrayal of social control by consent supersedes in contemporary relevance Orwell’s depiction of steel-booted totalitarian dictatorship. Though the portions of Huxley’s nightmarish landscape most often
Kyle Palmer | Monday, April 18, 2016
On March 30, Chris Matthews pressed Donald Trump on his abortion stance; after initially sidestepping the question, Trump stated that women should be punished if they get an abortion, assuming abortion would be illegal at that time. Now, Trump has walked that stance back, “clarified” it, and ultimately restated it, but that’s not the specific