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This Friday, the 26th annual March for Life will take place in Washington, D.C. Thousands of anti-abortion protesters will gather on the Mall to advocate the revocation of Roe v. Wade and the adoption of a "human life amendment to the Constitution." But even as long-standing peaceful demonstrations and anti-abortion legislation attempts continue, a disturbing minority of anti-abortion activists are shifting the real battle against Roe from philosophical opposition towards pursuits of violence against abortion providers...
...power and agility reserved for its Chevrolet Corvette with a cabin as quiet as the best European and Japanese sedans. And in Detroit this week executives are introducing what they trumpet as "the future of Cadillac" in a concept car called Evoq, a two-seat roadster with a supercharged V-8 engine, boasting such features as a voice-activated navigation system and e-mail that flashes everything from news bulletins to stock quotes...
Eugenics was not just gassy theories. Impressed by the pseudo science, many U.S. states enacted laws requiring the sterilization of those held in custody who were deemed to suffer from hereditary defects. In 1927 the U.S. Supreme Court heard an appeal of Virginia's decision in Buck v. Bell to sterilize Carrie Buck, an institutionalized 17-year-old whom the state had decreed a "moral imbecile," the daughter of a "feebleminded" mother and the mother herself of a daughter who was found to be, at age seven months, subnormal in intelligence. The court, by an 8-to-1 vote, rejected...
...gives sociology students a background to really take their researching methods and apply them to the practically world of policy," said Christopher V. Winship, chair of the sociology department...
...recent case of Rosenberger v. University of Virginia, the liberals of the Supreme Court ruled for the first time in history that taxpayers' money can be used to support sectarian religious proselytizing. In this decision, the Court mandated that a state run university must subsidize an evangelical Christian student newspaper titled Wide Awake, which aims not only at discussing ideas about religion, but also at converting its readers and persuading them to repent and avoid hellfire by initiating a personal relationship with Christ...