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Assayer of Student Opinion.

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We don’t need your forgiveness

Maria Esquinca, Managing Editor September 8, 2015

Abortion. It’s a word we don’t like to mention, talk or think about, although it is one of the most common and safest medical procedures. It silently exists around us, unacknowledged, but ever present. According to the Guttmacher institute, about...

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Catholic citizens attend Sunday mass at St. Patricks Cathedral  on Sunday morning.

Alonso Moreno, Copy Editor September 8, 2015

Often labeled as murderers and sinners by some, and as individuals exercising their reproductive rights by others, women around the world have been given a new complexity to add to the ever-changing issue of abortion. Last Tuesday, Pope Francis shocked...

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Christina Ospina, of Population Connection, is one of about 200 lobbyists who met with members of Congress on Monday to encourage them to repeal the Global Gag Rule, which prohibits funding for international aid groups that advocate family planning or performs abortions. SHFWire photo by Jose Soto.

Abortion rights group seeks end to ‘Gag Rule’

Jose Soto, SHFW Reporter April 15, 2015

WASHINGTON – Pro-abortion rights groups want to overturn two American policies that prevent countries that receive U.S. aid money for using it to support family planning clinics that also perform abortions. The groups are lobbying to change the policy...

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Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, recounted the national anti-abortion organization’s hand in building the Republican Senate majority at a press conference Thursday at the National Press Club. The nonprofit spent millions of dollars in 2014 to elect anti-abortion candidates.

Anti-abortion group confident House will pass ban on late-term abortion

Jordan Gass-Pooré, SHFWire Intern January 20, 2015

WASHINGTON – Marjorie Dannenfelser is a self-described reluctant convert to the anti-abortion movement. Dannenfelser made it her life’s mission to end abortion after a philosophical debate when she was a Duke University undergraduate, she said at...

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