On June 27, 2016, the Supreme Court issued their decision to strike down a restrictions on abortion because the restrictions had no data justifying that their benefits outweighed their cost. Pro-choice advocates cheered and pro-life advocates expressed grief at their defeat. However, the decision wasn’t just about abortion. It was about integrity, as measured by available data. Abortion detesters believe abortion destroys sacred human life. When they advocate for solutions that preserve fetal life they are very strong, appealing to…..
He is an OUTSIDER. He doesn’t fit —for example not pro-life or pro-choice pre-molded positions. He actually uses his brain cells. He doesn’t get it right on the first try but he listens. Eventually he’ll make a good deal. Think about the furor over his latest abortion comments. He has shown the hollowness of BOTH positions in a few brief sentences. First, he pondered that there needed to be some form of punishment, and that surely that would include the…..
Helping Which Other Women? When Madeleine Albright repeated in the context of current politics her famous quote “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women,” it made me stop and think. My decision is to vote for whoever best supports the “Little Minnows,” half of whom are women, wanted at inception by biological mom or not. And if the current woman running for office isn’t standing there, if I don’t support her that doesn’t…..