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...Safe, legal, and rare” has been the rallying cry of the modern pro-choice movement since the days of President Bill Clinton. This phrase is etched in the Democratic Party platform, broadcasted on televised debates, and witnessed in signs demanding that Roe v. Wade remain the law of the land. However, keeping abortion safe and legal seems much more consistent with the pro-choice position than ensuring that the procedure is rare. Why exactly is this curious third word included in the abortion catchphrase...
...Furthermore, if the pro-choice movement fully embraces the moral acceptability of abortion as it must, then it follows that there should be nothing wrong with women choosing to use the procedure as birth control. With this logic, there should be no objections against the Yale senior, Aliza Shvarts, for her art exhibition reported nation-wide last week, which may have included footage of multiple artificially induced abortions. If one argues that abortion should be safe and legal, then he cannot, in the same breath, insist that he hopes abortion is also rare...
...We’re trying to start an initiative, to raise awareness and keep Iraq in the public mind,” says Jafar. “And we’re doing that while investing in something tangible—Iraqi higher education—in an apolitical movement.” Although Jafar just started selling the shirts last week, she has joked with her parents, who both graduated from Baghdad University, about putting their alma mater on college apparel for several years. After working with the Iraqi Ministry of Education at the Iraq embassy in Washington...
...Association of University Teachers to boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities. In the invitation to their event, the Nakba Committee quotes Pappé’s book, “Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine:” “On May 15, 1948, leaders of the Zionist movement declared the formation of the State of Israel on the land of Palestine. They proceeded to implement their long held plan to ethnically cleanse the indigenous majority Palestinian Arab population from Palestine in order to constitute a Jewish majority-dominated state. War ensued.” Pappé misleadingly decontextualizes...
...Obama must create a new movement and he must create a whole new choir and in his new choir he's the conductor and they are inspired by hope," Brazile continued. "They are not looking to hear that angry jocular masculine tone that we're accustomed to in American politics. He should not hit an angry note. It's not what the choir will listen...