Banning Abortion Isn’t Pro-Life: Anti-Choice Legislation Killed My Great-Grandmother
Two big things happened in 1929: the stock market crashed, and my grandmother was born.
My maternal grandmother, Ann, was the second child in the Hubbard-Miller family from Clinton, Missouri. Over the next four years, my maternal great grandmother, Joyce June Hubbard, would bear two more children. In 1936, at just thirty-six years old, she found out she was pregnant again. The family had lost nearly everything in the ’29 crash and could barely feed their family of six.
My maternal grandmother, Ann, was the second child in the Hubbard-Miller family from Clinton, Missouri. Over the next four years, my maternal great grandmother, Joyce June Hubbard, would bear two more children. In 1936, at just thirty-six years old, she found out she was pregnant again. The family had lost nearly everything in the ’29 crash and could barely feed their family of six.
Powerful Men Do Terrible Things: Why Lawyers Like Kavanaugh Perpetrate Sexual Assault
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh now has two accusers. Listening to debates about the allegations of sexual violence committed by the current SCOTUS nominee, I have been particularly surprised at those who cling to his profession as an attorney and judge as an indicator that he would be morally incapable of doing something as reprehensible as rape or sexual assault. That was, in fact, the opposite of my experience as a law school student.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be the first female US president
Donald Trump’s shocking victory in the 2016 presidential race caused liberals across the United States to question whether the country was indeed ready for a woman president. Since then, there has been much speculation about various female politicians and celebrities running for office, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Kamala Harris, Oprah, Michelle Obama, and others. There have even been rumours that Hillary Clinton might run again.
I, however, don’t see any of these women making it
I, however, don’t see any of these women making it
Can AMLO end Mexico’s devastating drug wars?
AMLO’s campaign promises of amnesty fall short of the reality of the country he is about to take the helm of.
YEAR IN DEFENSE 2020
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The sexist truth about gun violence a lot of powerful people don’t want you to know | Carli Pierson
Democratic Michigan Congresswoman Debbie Dignell grew up in a home that was under a constant threat of gun violence. “We don’t forget about hiding in closets,” she said during a speech in the House. “Or our father taking locks off of doors. Or my grabbing a gun from my father, so he wouldn’t kill my mother, and being convinced that we would die.”
Catholic bishops plan to pressure Biden over abortion rights. It’s time to make a choice | Carli Pierson
When Joselyn turned 15 she was already two months pregnant. Her mother, a housemaid who worked in another city, came back to her tiny village in a rural area of Puebla, Mexico, for her daughter’s quinceañera and her abortion. They had the party celebrating her 15-year birthday and so-called “entry into womanhood” first, and the next day they induced the abortion. It was bloody and painful. She retched on the floor for hours.
Red flag laws don’t work. The only way to heal our nation is to ban guns | Carli Pierson
How many shootings in the past month? In 2021? Well, as any “woke lawyer” (as my trolls on Twitter like to call me) would tell you, it depends. It depends on how you count them, for instance. According to the Gun Violence Archive there have been (so far) 36 mass shootings in April with a total of 44 people killed and many more injured. If you want to count “simple” shootings, then in just the past 72 hours there were over 253, but that number will likely go up between the time I finish writing...
We all wanted to believe Pope Francis was different. Now he’s finally proven he isn’t | Carli Pierson
“Who here isn’t sure if they believe in God?” I tentatively raised my skinny seventh-grader hand with bitten-down nails and chipped pink and blue polish; the entire class held their breath. I was apparently alone in my apostasy.
I had just turned twelve years old and was the new girl at a posh Catholic school in a suburb of Denver, Colorado.
I had just turned twelve years old and was the new girl at a posh Catholic school in a suburb of Denver, Colorado.
Opinion: Is 2021 the year of the Equal Rights Amendment? I hope so
If you believe that women’s rights to equality under the law are enshrined in the US constitution, and that the Equal Rights Amendment consecrating women’s rights passed decades ago, then you’re wrong.
The ERA was famously drafted by Alice Paul of the National Women’s Party in the early 1920s and was introduced in every Congressional session since the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. The bill gained significant momentum in the women’s movement of the 1970s and was approved by 35 states before...
The ERA was famously drafted by Alice Paul of the National Women’s Party in the early 1920s and was introduced in every Congressional session since the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. The bill gained significant momentum in the women’s movement of the 1970s and was approved by 35 states before...
The first three things Biden should do in office
An economic recession that left millions of Americans unable to pay rent or put food on the table amid a raging pandemic is just the beginning of the new president-elect’s problems.
Our healthcare system is stretched beyond repair, we have an unpredictable white supremacist autocrat clinging to power, and too many gun toting Republican politicians in Congress and local governments that support him and his vitriol.
Our healthcare system is stretched beyond repair, we have an unpredictable white supremacist autocrat clinging to power, and too many gun toting Republican politicians in Congress and local governments that support him and his vitriol.
Opinion: Mexico's AMLO seems incapable of tackling record rates of femicide
A sea of purple and black swayed in unison with the Jacaranda trees lining Mexico City’s streets yesterday as over 80,000 women descended upon the capital to protest the country’s femicide epidemic. And across the nation, women of all ages and backgrounds joined local marches to protest an increasing outrage at the gender-based violence epidemic and the lack of an adequate response on behalf of the government.
Yesterday, women (and some men) came out in the hundreds of thousands to call out the
Yesterday, women (and some men) came out in the hundreds of thousands to call out the
Activists killed in Mexican state where illegal logging threatens butterflies
Within a one-week span, two environmental activists and advocates for the monarch butterfly were found violently killed in the Pacific coast state of Michoacán, Mexico.
US-created crisis is now a humanitarian disaster at Mexico's doorstep
Mexico is expecting another major migrant caravan to begin arriving at its southern border with Guatemala. This latest group is suspected to be between 5,000-8,000 persons and been called the "Devil's Caravan" by the media and migrants themselves. Both locals in the southern state of Chiapas and migrants are worried about what's to come.
