Dr. George Tiller
(Editor’s note: Marc Lourdes, a journalist from the New Straits Times of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is spending the summer at the Post-Dispatch on the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships in international journalism. During his rotation on the editorial page,…
Michelle Obama looks on as Barack Obama takes an HIV/AIDS test in a special van in Kisumu, Kenya, in 2006. Obama and his wife publicly took AIDS test in hopes of helping to end the fear and social stigmas that…
As was expected, President George W. Bush commuted the sentences of two border patrol guards, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who had been sentenced to more than 10 years in jail for seriously wounding a suspected drug runner. They now are…
A new rule may limit some women
Doctors take an oath to put their patients’ interests first. A new Bush administration rule will change that.
The so-called “conscience rule” is one of a host of last-minute regulatory changes being made in the waning…
The Bush administration is attempting to re-define “pregnancy.” From the Wall Street Journal:
The Bush Administration has ignited a furor with a proposed definition of pregnancy that has the effect of classifying some of the most widely used methods of contraception…
No pregnant woman should be forced to have an abortion. All reasonable people can agree on that. But drawing the line between coercion and consent is more difficult than it may seem.
Is a woman coerced if she terminates a pregnancy rather…
