by Judith Evans — “Let’s do it.” Those were the last words spoken by Gary Gilmore, moments before his execution by a Utah firing squad on...

by Sophie Trist — On June 16, 1944, fourteen-year-old George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person to be legally executed in the United...

by Samuel B. Parker — On January 11th, 2002, twenty inmates arrived at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, becoming the first individuals...

Happy New Year! As you may know, the month of January is typically one of the most active months for those of us who work to educate and...

by Sophie Trist — The New York Times rang in the new year by releasing its findings that many popular prenatal genetic tests are...

by John Whitehead — The long-simmering conflict between Ukraine and Russia now threatens to become open war. Russian military forces...

by Kristina Artuković — People with a health condition, chronic illness or disability — even people like me, who have a child with a...

by John Whitehead — The Biden administration is currently re-evaluating the United States’ nuclear strategy. This re-evaluation offers an...

by Judith Evans — Swiss advocates of assisted suicide are hailing a new invention: a 3-D printed suicide capsule known as “Sarco” — short...

by Sarah Terzo — The argument “My body, my choice” has long been used to support abortion. More recently, it’s been used by those who...

by Christy Yao Pelliccioni — Dr. Laura Rivard of the University of San Diego, founder of Genetics Generation, makes an excellent point in...

by John Whitehead — U.S.-China tensions increased this fall with U.S. officials’ announcement that China had tested a “hypersonic weapon”...

by Sarah Terzo — On October 28th, John Grant, 60, was executed in Oklahoma. Witnesses say the execution was botched, and that Grant...

by John Whitehead — A long struggle against injustice took a new turn this fall when a group of Navajo activists moved forward with an...

by Stephanie Hauer — Chyna Carrillo was just two weeks away from her twenty-fifth birthday in early March of this year. She was certified...

by Christy Yao Pelliccioni — Growing up pro-life, I heard the word “eugenics” tossed around often, even from an early age. I became...

a photo of Herb Geraghty being handcuffed by two police officers outside of Zuckerberg General Hospital in San Francisco

by Sophie Trist — This recent Halloween season has been an unusually scary one. There’s not much scarier for disabled and chronically ill...

by Christy Yao Pelliccioni — Paid maternity leave is a popular idea. A Pew study found that 82% of Americans support mandatory paid leave...

by Judith Evans — In 2018, a Colombian woman named Martha Liria Sepulveda received a frightening diagnosis: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...