Similar Indifferences

  The 2023 cinematic production The Zone of Interest won an Academy Award last month for Best International Feature Film. This powerful movie focuses on Schutzstaffel (SS) lieutenant colonel Rudolf Höss during his time as commandant of Auschwitz, the sprawling Nazi...
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WAITRESS: THE MUSICAL

    Directed by Diane Paulus and Brett Sullivan Music by Sara Bareilles Reviewed by Isabelle Flood __________________________________________ In a culture that believes abortion is necessary and empowering for women, it’s refreshing to find a mainstream story that...
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PUSHING ROE V. WADE OVER THE BRINK: THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA’S HEART, THE HUMAN RIGHT TO LIFE, AND A FUTURE FULL OF HOPE

Clarke D. Forsythe and Alexandra DeSanctis (Americans United for Life, hardcover, 324 pages, $19.95, PB $14.95) Reviewed by John M. Grondelski _____________________________________________________________________ The history of U.S. pro-life activism is woefully under-documented....
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New York’s Dangerous ERA Proposal

  Note from Maria Maffucci, Editor in Chief: The following is my summary of a fully-cited legal analysis of New York’s proposed ERA Amendment, written by Donald P. Berens, Jr., a retired attorney and former New York State government lawyer. Please click here to read the...
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Recent Developments on State Constitutions and Abortion: An Interview with Paul Benjamin Linton

Mr. Linton: Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, there is no longer a federal constitutional right to abortion. Abortion advocates, therefore, have turned to state constitutions in an attempt to establish a constitutional right to abortion at the state level that would...
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Masters of Misperception

  “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.” —Abraham Lincoln, 1858 I first read this quotation from Abraham Lincoln many years ago, and was...
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An Issue Ignored in Dobbs

  On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court, ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,1 overturned its half-century-old Roe v. Wade decision,2 and the pro-life movement rejoiced. Remarkably, however, what the Court in Roe v. Wade had regarded as the...
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The Longest Forever War: Women and Children in the Battle for East Asia

  In recent years I have been involved in an academic debate over the comfort women. “Comfort women” is a direct—and too-literal—translation of ianfu (慰安婦), a euphemistic Japanese term meaning a woman (fu) who provides ian, something which might best be expressed in English...
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When Abortion Causes Moral Injury

309.89 Post-traumatic Stress Disorder The stressor producing this syndrome would be markedly stressing to almost anyone, and is usually experienced with intense fear, terror and helplessness. The characteristic symptoms involve reexperiencing the traumatic event, avoidance of...
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Republican Party platform on abortion shifts from 2016

    Calling itself a “forward-looking agenda,” the new Republican Party blueprint begins with a dedication to the “Forgotten Men and Women of America,” and promises to “restore common sense” and “put America first,” promises that former President Donald Trump has made...
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