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Although she admits that the procedure—officially called dilation and extraction (D&X)—is rare, she claims it accounts for 1 percent of all abortions. This is an incorrect statistic; D&X procedures account for only 0.17 percent of all abortions. Such procedures are not performed on healthy women whose fetuses would be able to survive indefinitely outside the mother, as Ms. Itoh claims. They are generally only done if there are serious mental or physical health problems related to the pregnancy, such as the fetus suffering from a condition that would render it unable...
Ultimately, Wisse stumbles onto a correct point—Harvard students are conservative—while remaining fundamentally incorrect; if one follows Wisse’s definitions of political allegiances, Harvard students are still as “liberal” as ever—pro-gay, pro-sex, pro-civil liberties...
...discontent does not matter so long as it is persistent and loud enough.2) You Don’t Have Opinions.Think the lack of women in the sciences might have more complex causes than ingrained societal oppression? Keep it to yourself.Tempted to paraphrase the Pulitzer Prize-winning, but politically incorrect arguments of Jared Diamond in your remarks to a gathering of historians? Not in this University, you don’t.Eager to see that untouchably cool Af-Am professor who calls everyone “Brother” return to academic research from his long foray into spoken word albums...
...Americans of color will not be fully empowered until all Americans are empowered,” said Cummings, who recently served as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. “It is incorrect to speak about civil rights in the past tense...
...that’s not even mentioning cartoon animals like Porky Pig, whose comedic stammering, though perhaps politically incorrect, is scientifically sound. Shell finds that the logic of Porky’s jokes follows a human stutterer’s efforts to achieve fluidity...