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...Years in jail, plus a $5,000 fine, a doctor would face for performing an illegal abortion in South Dakota, under a new law that bans the procedure except to save the mother's life...
...Time To Kill”), as I believe she has overlooked an important aspect of late-term abortion. Ms. Itoh writes, “it is very difficult for me to stomach any argument for why such a procedure should ever be permitted, except to preserve the health of the mother.” However, most of the few women who seek the dilatation and extraction procedure do so out of great need. Abortion can be a cripplingly expensive operation, particularly for poor, uninsured women, and many are unable to collect the funds needed before their 20th week. Women...
...musical community (Hufstedler is the drummer in Plan B for the Type A’s, and Rhodes is Linus’ guitarist), recruiting bands from their own campus required a more democratic approach. “We decided there wasn’t a fair way to choose except for setting up some kind of voting system,” Hufstedler says.After the Undergraduate Council volunteered its website as a forum for student voting, Hufstedler and Rhodes sent out emails over house lists and recruited eight bands for the contest. Over the course of 48 hours, approximately 600 students...
...also convinced that all of the characters are flawed and capable of redemption, except for Janice. She can never be redeemed. And I’d love to discuss my reasons with you, in an academic or not-so-academic setting...
...Scouts for teams at the top of the draft order breathed a collective sigh of relief after Young reportedly went back and took the test again, this time scoring a much more respectable 16 on the 50-question, 12-minute test. We learned little about Young at the combine, except that he’s no Ryan Fitzpatrick (the former Harvard QB reportedly scored a 38 in a record nine minutes on the test before last year’s draft). What we did learn, however, was that this so-called measure of intelligence is meaningless. That the last time...