By Louis A. Ruprecht, Religion Dispatches On November 2, 1984, Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1962, and the first to be executed in the State of North Carolina after the nationwide moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in 1976. She was…
As we end women's history month I feel compelled to bring up one of the most influential women in America, whose beliefs and compassion for the poor and uneducated have had a direct affect on how we live today: Margaret Sanger. In 1914, Margaret Sanger launched the magazine The Woman…
By: Daniel Mosh Birth control has had a precarious relationship with the Catholic Church in the past. Since the inception of oral contraception, i.e. The Pill, in the 1960s and the legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade in 1973, the Catholic Church has perhaps been the most vocal…
By: Stilettos and a Stiletto Bullshit Alert: Georgia State Representative Bobby Franklin continues to promote a bill that not only makes abortion prenatal murder but includes miscarriages as well if it is determined that there was any human intervention whatsoever. Consider the potential implications of this bill. If a…