Archive: Reproductive Rights
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Aug 18, 2010
2 CommentsAn Ode to Ursula Le Guin
Ursula Le Guin is one of my favorite thinkers and my favorite pieces of hers tend to be her theoretical musing. I recently ran across a speech she gave in 1982 called “The Princess.” The piece is a call to action and inspirational, but what struck me the most was that the speech was given in 1982 and yet...
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Jul 27, 2010
No CommentsDualism Hinders Not Helps: The Binary of Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life Will Never Solve Anything
I was chatting with a good friend the other day and she used an analogy that I really like. We were talking about sex education and what you should teach your kids (she just had a beautiful baby boy!), and she used the phrase “give them a curb.” As in, if you believe in abstinence...
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Jun 01, 2010
5 CommentsPro-life or Pro-choice? We Should All Be For-Life
This country can easily be divided into a classic binary opposition with a single question: pro-life or pro-choice? However, the simple division does no good, rather it reduces a complex issue to simplistic terms which is counterproductive and harmful. The pro-life side of the debate often claims the position of the “moral high ground” and...