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The Federal Government Seeks the Death Penalty for a Mass Shooter, Breaking President Biden’s Campaign Promise
by Sophie Trist — During his 2020 presidential campaign, President Joe Biden promised to take concrete steps to abolish the federal death...
Mar 22, 20242 min read
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Israel and Palestine: An Urgent Need to Rehumanize
by Sophie Trist — Hamas’s recent attack on Israel, which left over a thousand unarmed civilians dead, is unquestionably a heinous,...
Oct 20, 20236 min read
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The Mainstream Media is Systematically Erasing Children Saved from Abortion
by Sophie Trist — It’s been over a year since Dobbs vs. Jackson reversed the calamitous Roe decision and returned the authority to make...
Aug 17, 20233 min read
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Remembering Judy Heumann: Humanizing People with Disabilities and Telling Our Stories
by Sophie Trist — For most of human history, people with physical and mental disabilities have been killed, institutionalized,...
Mar 13, 20233 min read
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Stop the Execution of Leonard “Raheem” Taylor
by Sophie Trist — In what is becoming an increasingly disturbing pattern, Missouri is set to execute a man with a credible innocence...
Feb 3, 20232 min read
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Coming Soon to Your Local Pharmacy: Abortion Violence
by Sophie Trist — Since the end of Roe v. Wade, medication-induced abortions have been on the rise. The Guttmacher Institute, a...
Jan 24, 20232 min read
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Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Program is Ableist, Classist, and Coercive
by Sophie Trist — A 2015 ruling by the Canadian Supreme Court in the case of Carter v. Canada paved the way for the country to legalize...
Sep 12, 20224 min read
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Nagaenthran Dharmalingam and the Gross Injustice of Capital Punishment for Nonviolent Drug Offenses
by Sophie Trist — In the United States, the death penalty is generally used for those convicted of first-degree or premeditated murder,...
Jun 4, 20223 min read
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Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right: Constructively Discussing Race in the Russo-Ukrainian War
by Sophie Trist — Around ten P.M. on the night of February 23, a breaking news alert on my phone told me that Russia had just launched a...
Mar 21, 20223 min read
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Texas Is About to Put an Innocent Mom to Death
by Sophie Trist — On April 27, the state of Texas plans to execute Melissa Elizabeth Lucio, a Mexican-American mother of twelve, for a...
Feb 11, 20223 min read
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#MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy: Disability Rights Activists Push Back Against CDC Director’s Ableist Remark
by Sophie Trist — During a recent video interview, CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said, “The overwhelming number of deaths — over 75%...
Jan 18, 20223 min read
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George Stinney Fund Will Provide Reparations for the Families of Those Wrongfully Executed in South
by Sophie Trist — On June 16, 1944, fourteen-year-old George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person to be legally executed in the United...
Jan 12, 20223 min read
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Keep Ableism Out of Your Conversations about Prenatal Testing
by Sophie Trist — The New York Times rang in the new year by releasing its findings that many popular prenatal genetic tests are...
Jan 6, 20224 min read
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Harmful Assisted Suicide Bill Progresses to Committee Stage After Fierce Debate in UK House of Lords
by Sophie Trist — This recent Halloween season has been an unusually scary one. There’s not much scarier for disabled and chronically ill...
Nov 9, 20213 min read
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We Need Justice for Thousands of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
by Sophie Trist — President Joe Biden has just become the first U.S. president to issue a proclamation in honor of Indigenous People’s...
Oct 10, 20214 min read
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The Supreme Court Should Not Reinstate the Death Penalty for the Boston Marathon Bomber
by Sophie Trist — On April 15, 2013, two bombs went off near the finish line of the 117th annual Boston Marathon, killing three people...
Oct 8, 20213 min read
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Texas's New Abortion Law: A Whole-Life Analysis
by Sophie Trist — In May, Texas passed a new abortion law similar to the heartbeat bills passed in other states. Though comparable laws...
Sep 1, 20215 min read
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United Nations Office of Human Rights Issues Groundbreaking Report on Combating Systemic Racism
by Sophie Trist — Following the brutal murder of George Floyd and subsequent racial justice protests around the globe, the United Nations...
Aug 2, 20214 min read
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Call to Action: Urge President Biden to Close Guantanamo Bay
by Sophie Trist — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Min) and Rep. David Price (D-NC) are calling on their fellow members of Congress to sign a letter to...
Jul 11, 20212 min read
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The Care for Her Act: A Step Toward Bipartisan, Whole-life Policy
by Sophie Trist — As advocates of the consistent life ethic, our goal goes far beyond making abortion illegal. We want to make abortion...
Jun 29, 20213 min read
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