by Laura | May 31, 2022 | Social-Cultural Issues
While we are waiting for the SCOTUS decision on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case in Mississippi, we are seeing more discussion on the ethics of abortion. Ezra Klein and Kate Greasley give one of the most thought-provoking discourses I have heard...
by Laura | Jun 13, 2019 | Social-Cultural Issues
Continuing from Part I, “How Forced Birth Laws Reflect One Belief about When Human Life Begins,” we need to talk more – and loudly – about the nightmarish costs that will come as a result of these laws. Looking to Romania We can look to Romania for...
by Laura | Jun 7, 2019 | Social-Cultural Issues
This is Part I of II on discussion of issues behind and impacts of forced birth laws: With the recent wave of anti-abortion laws in America as a clear attempt of anti-abortion proponents to reverse Roe v. Wade, kudos to the public radio program, Here & Now, for...
by Laura | Jun 1, 2019 | Childfree-Related Political issues, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Rebecca Traister’s recent piece on The Cut, “Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for Decades As Hysterical,” hits hard and directly as what we must do to fight for our reproductive rights in this time of aggressive abortion ban attempts, which ultimately seek to...
by Laura | May 10, 2019 | On a Personal Note
As those close to me know, since late 2017 I’ve had big challenges and change in my life. After seven years of dealing with my mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s, near the end of 2017 she fell and passed away shortly after. Four months later, in the midst of a...
