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Jun 20, 20173 min read
Dying With Real Dignity
Dignity is popular these days. When people champion human rights, human dignity is usually not too far behind, and with good reason: our...
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Jun 20, 20177 min read
Remembering Nat Hentoff (1925-2017)
Defenders of life lost one of their most eloquent, frustrating, and idiosyncratic voices earlier this year when Nat Hentoff died on...
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Jun 20, 20173 min read
Suicide: “Choose When You Want to Go”
I remember sitting in one of my classes as an undergraduate and hearing my Management of Aging Services professor tell the story of an...
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Sep 13, 20116 min read
Family Planning Freedom is Pro-Life
BY MARY KRANE DERR The right to access the full range of voluntary family planning methods is often neglected or actively undermined in...
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Sep 13, 20111 min read
Sonnet -- At 40 Weeks
BY LILIANNA SERBICKI Swollen, a dream on its way to fruition; Nothing romantic. Lense (soft-focus) gone. Real fruit bruises; a real fruit...
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Sep 13, 20115 min read
Ten Years Later
BY AIMEE BEDOY I am writing this ten years to the day that those towers fell. And ten years later, I want us to discuss what we have...
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Sep 13, 20112 min read
The Abolition of Capital Punishment in Illinois
BY NICHOLAS NEAL The abolition of the death penalty in Illinois began when Governor George Ryan placed a moratorium on capital punishment...
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Sep 13, 201113 min read
Justice in the Face of Unknowing
BY AIMEE BEDOY & STEVEN OETJEN A quandary of major proportions faces our nation in this day and age. It could be a matter of life and...
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Sep 13, 20112 min read
The Rebels Storming Tripoli
BY NICHOLAS NEAL & AIMEE BEDOY On Tuesday, August 23rd, the rebel forces in Libya stormed Gadhafi's capital of Tripoli, thus declaring...
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Sep 13, 20118 min read
Just War, Just Peace, Or What?
BY BILL SAMUEL What should our attitude -- as individuals, social movements and nations -- be toward war? When, if ever, is war...
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Sep 13, 20111 min read
Mother to Child
BY OLIVIA MELDRUM While I am mistress of my mind, You will sleep safely every hour. No morning will you wake to find My warmth turned...
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Sep 13, 20114 min read
A Terse Nonpartisan Assessment of Our Political Prospects
BY JULIA SMUCKER It's that time of year again -- or has been, since sometime last year. The mud is flying left and right as a motley...
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Sep 13, 20116 min read
What is the Consistent Life Ethic?
BY NICHOLAS NEAL We often hear partisan pundits criticize their opponents for the opponents' inconsistencies about killing people. We...
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