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...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as the Democratic champions of the health-care bill, have been repeating the mantra: “This is not an abortion bill; it is a health-care bill.” The irony of this situation is that it is pro-abortion advocates??not anti-abortion advocates??who are seizing this opportunity to wage a pro-choice vs. pro-life battle. It is unreasonable to say that the Stupak amendment would curtail any women’s “right to choose...
...this time of reflection, sharp and painful memories from this tragedy have sparked calls for change from both sides of the gun-control debate: Pro-gun-control students have objected to the laws that allowed Cho access to a gun in the first place, and anti-gun-control advocates??including 25,000 members of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus— argue that students could have stopped the massacre in its early stages had they been allowed to carry concealed weapons. While the fear and frustration that gives rise to such an attitude is understandable, the idea...
...Gross said the committee is a response to concerns that students do not have a voice when they go in front of the board. Currently there are no students on the 35-member panel, and those students called before the board are allowed only voiceless “advocates??—FAS affiliates who may be present but may not speak on the students’ behalf—as outside support...
...basis for entitling them to a certain level of monetary worth, the living-wage proponents inextricably yet fatefully marry the two previously separate notions. Once the notions of monetary and human worth have been linked—be it in the minds of students, workers, or living-wage advocates??the consequence is stark. As long as there ultimately exists some difference in monetary worth between Harvard’s lowest-paid workers and other members of the community (and there surely will), so too will there exist a rift in the human worth accorded to members of each...
Those who have spoken out against the creation of a Women’s Center have framed its establishment as a zero-sum game: if women win, everybody else loses. This attitude is unfounded, and displays a misunderstanding of advocates?? concrete reasons for supporting the Center—and confusion about what a Women’s Center really...