Philadelphia Abortion Clinic Horror: Column — USAtoday.com
By Kirsten Powers
Originally published 11 April 2013
We’ve forgotten what belongs on Page One.
THE STATE of the Union — On Hormones
By D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.
A few days ago, I received an unsolicited e-mail from “Stephanie Cutter, BarackObama.com” <[email protected]>. It read in part,
Here’s some big news that’s going to affect millions of women. On Friday, the Obama administration announced that soon women won’t have to pay out of pocket for birth control: Starting August 1st, many insurance plans nationwide will be required to fully cover contraception without co-pays or deductibles. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, more women can make health care decisions based on what’s best for them — ...read moreGovernment backtracks on gender ruling
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/government-backtracks-on-gender-ruling-20100318-qifp.html
Fifty Years After the Declaration: The United Nations’ Record on Human Rights
With the recently approved Human Rights Council replacing the widely discredited United Nations’ Human Rights Commission, Fifty Years After the Declaration: The United Nations’ Record on Human Rights is a timely and, indeed, a necessary read. Whatever one’s interpretation of the United Nations’ beginnings, history, or current functioning, a retrospective consideration of that body’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, published in 1948, is a task worthy of the time required to digest this short work.
Having experienced two world wars in little more than thirty years’ time, those who composed the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 were ...read more
