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...once they got to Virginia. Sure enough, two weeks after they settled at Jamestown, 200 Indians attacked. Cannon fire dispersed the war party, but the skirmish served notice that the settlers were not welcome on the rich riverside tracts Native Americans first roamed some 13,000 years before the birth of Christ...
Last week I checked my medicine cabinet and realized that my birth control (from a year-long prescription) would be gone in two days. There was only one dreadful solution: a trip to UHS.When I arrived things started off well, but somehow the nurse practitioner became confused about my request for birth control and actually thought I was pregnant. After three minutes of learning about my options as a pregnant woman in college, I had endured enough. “NO, I’M NOT PREGNANT, BUT I WILL BE IF YOU DON’T GIVE...
...point across, and picked up my birth control at CVS by the end of the day. But despite the false accusation leveled at my uterus, it was admittedly easy for me to rightfully obtain what I needed. In fact, most of my health needs are met easily for a simple reason, but one that is often overlooked in politics: I’m not poor. And in looking at the liberal overreaction to last week’s Supreme Court ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart, it is striking to me that so-called progressives so easily forget the disparity...
After this ruling, in which the Supreme Court upheld a national ban on partial birth abortion, both the pro-choice and pro-life camps emerged with their rhetorical guns blazing. While I consider myself pro-choice and I believe life begins at birth and not conception, I have come to realize the pro-choice movement can be just as delusional as the pro-lifers who cling militantly to the notion that a fetus is a life form...
...that the abortion debates have been hijacked by alleged liberals looking to score political points at the expense of thousands of women who cannot afford what, we’re told, is a constitutional right. This one ruling sent the pro-choice contingent into feverish mania. Nevermind that partial birth abortions, otherwise known as dilation and evacuation (D&E), constituted a tiny percentage of abortions performed in this country...