SNAP Cuts? More Poverty, More Abortion
by Sarah Terzo The Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, allows poor individuals and families to buy food they need. A proposal by the chair of the U.S. House Agricultural Committee has been made to cut these benefits drastically. Myths Vs. Reality Many conservatives claim programs like SNAP allow lazy people…
Successes We Never Know About
by Sarah Terzo Being an activist can be discouraging when we don’t seem to have an impact. But sometimes, victories happen – hearts and minds are changed, and lives are saved—but we never know it. A Fetal Model Saves a Life In a 2021 article in Newsweek, Jessica Riojas says that in 2017, as a…
Assisted Suicide is Inequality, Just Like All Legal Violence
by Jacqueline Abernathy As I write this, Governor John Carney has the fate of generations of citizens at his mercy should he sign HB 140 making Delaware the 12th U.S. state where assisted suicide is legal. I wrote a letter urging him to veto HB 140 which I documented from my scientific research as a…
Home of the Brave? A CLE Response to City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson
by Sonja Morin (published July 2, 2024) Americans everywhere are preparing to celebrate the United States’ 248th anniversary of independence this Thursday. Many recall their own history of living in the U.S., or their families’ reasons for calling this land their home. The national anthem’s famous line “o’er the land of the free, and the…