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...place as any to study the anatomy and evolution of attitudes about abortion. About half of American women will face an unplanned pregnancy, according to the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute, and at current rates more than one-third will have an abortion by the time they are 45. Since Roe v. Wade legalized the procedure in 1973, no other issue has so contorted U.S. politics or confounded values. When does life begin? Who should decide? And is there anything that can be agreed on to make the hard choices less painful? Much of the antiabortion movement remains focused on changing laws...
...figure that, coming from the cerebral Roberts, the argument probably makes sense. The court, after all, wisely achieved unanimity in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark school-desegregation decision that left no doubt about what the law should be. By contrast, the splintered ruling in Bush v. Gore suggested that partisanship rather than the law guided the court's resolution of the 2000 presidential election...
Court dissenters have also been crucial to the civil rights of African Americans. In 1896 the Supreme Court ruled that keeping blacks and whites separate but equal was just fine. Only Justice John Harlan found fault with that state of affairs, writing as the lone dissenter in Plessy v. Ferguson that "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens." It would take more than a half-century, but the wisdom of his words finally persuaded the court to acknowledge in Brown that "'separate but equal' has no place" in public education...
...years in co-ed school were filled with some of the characteristic V-Day scarring. In first grade, the 100th day of school fell on Valentine’s Day and I remember having to put 100 heart stickers on the outside of a brown paper bag under duress. That was horrendous...
...liaisons occur, the pressure’s off, and I was free to revel in the indulgences of this pointless holiday regardless of whether or not I was “attached.” Once I set that precedent, it was hard to go back into being a V-Day hater. Since then, I have spent Valentine’s Day with boyfriends and without boyfriends, and I think that spending it “alone” is just as fun as spending it with someone I’m dating. Especially in college—where...