Colorado pregnancy center fire investigated as arson
Colorado police and the FBI are investigating a fire at a pregnancy center early Saturday morning as arson after finding graffiti and threatening messages scrawled on the Denver-area building. The fire broke out at Life Choices in the city of Longmont around 3:17 a.m., police wrote in a Facebook post
Read MoreDobbs decision shows US can be both powerful and humane
Friday’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is a win for the United States, democracy, the Constitution, women and, yes, the pro-life movement in all its wild diversity and unrelenting spirit — as well as for human rights movements overall. The Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood is a win for the United States, which is now no longer one of
Read MoreHow much will you pay? Navigating the true cost of higher education
High school and college graduation ceremonies across the country have wrapped up, and a new generation of students is preparing to begin their higher education. Or perhaps not. A recent report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows 662,000 fewer students enrolled in undergraduate programs in spring 2022 than a year earlier, a decline of 4.7 percent. Many of these e
Read MoreFive takeaways from the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling
The Supreme Court made its most dramatic intervention in American life in decades Friday, striking down the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had provided a constitutional right to abortion. The rescinding of the right is likely to lead to the banning of abortion in around half the states in the nation. Thirteen states already had so-called ‘trigger laws’ designed to make terminating a pregnancy illegal almost as soon as Roe fell. By Friday evening, nine states had outlawed abortion, according to The New York Times. Friday’s ruling had been anticipated since e
Read MoreMore than 30 Senate Democrats call for Biden to take action to protect abortion access
A group of Democratic senators wrote a letter on Saturday urging President Biden to take action to protect abortion access across the country in response to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The 33 Senators called on Biden to use “the full force of the federal government to protect access to abortion in the United States.” “There is no time to waste,” the letter read. “Nearly half of the states already had laws in place to ban abortion or severely rest
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