If the role and responsibilities of men are not addressed in anti-abortion laws, then the goal is not saving the life of a human being.
Tag: Supreme Court
Nancy Welch: Reproductive Liberty Amendment is more important than ever
In this hellscape for the autonomy and health of women, girls, and transgender and nonbinary people, Vermont voters have a chance in November to make headlines that bring hope.
Tom Evslin: Keeping our republic? The question is still open
Abdication of responsibility by Congress gives the president dictatorial powers. Put dictatorial powers together with an executive who won’t leave office and you get a monarchy.
Rabbi Ellie Shemtov: Supreme Court took away my religious freedom
Judaism’s position on abortion: In Jewish law, a fetus attains the status of a full person only at birth. And, the mother’s life is the highest priority, which means there are times when abortion is mandated.
Philip Finkelstein: A tyrannical minority is undoing our democracy
As rights like abortion get stripped away by an undemocratically manufactured judiciary working in coordination with misrepresentative legislative and executive bodies, the stage is set for democracy's downfall.
William Mathis: The Insurrection: Will the center hold?
The turn of the tale will be in our ability to come together as a nation and as a society. Is it really a “United States”? The East and West coasts are solidly blue while the South and the Midwest are red. The economic and migration patterns sharpen the inflection points.
Michael Caduto: After West Virginia v. EPA, the whole Earth is now in our hands
Now, the burden to be good stewards of the environment, and to care for the most vulnerable members of our society, falls increasingly to every individual, household, community and state.
Steph Yu: A giant leap backward in the fight for basic human rights
A Supreme Court that strips basic human rights from millions of Americans is dangerous for us all. Our friends and loved ones across the country saw their ability to make their own choices about their own bodies vanish overnight.
Vermont Conversation: Have Supreme Court justices become 'politicians in robes?'
Rodney Smolla has been analyzing and arguing before the Supreme Court for decades.
Narain Batra: The court has installed a millstone around our necks
Americans look to the Supreme Court to protect and enhance their freedoms, not diminish them. Today only 25% of Americans have confidence in the Supreme Court, which is down from 36% last year, according to the Gallup Poll.
Vermont Conversation: The 'courageous doctor' who helped legalize abortion in Vermont
The case that legalized abortion in Vermont featured “Jacqueline R.,” an unmarried server who wanted to end her pregnancy, and an OB/GYN resident at the University of Vermont named Jackson Beecham.
Walt Amses: Welcome to Christian America and the evangelical Big Lie
The decision to overturn Roe v. Wade set back a century of American intellectual and scientific progress, empowering a Christian theocracy bent on its superstitions dictating the rule of law.
Elayne Clift: Feminism isn’t dead; it’s exhausted
The feminism of my generation, flawed though it has been, is not dead. In the words of the beloved civil rights leader Fanny Lou Hamer, we are simply “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
The Deeper Dig: Why Vermont’s 150-year-old school tuition system might have to change
According to some legal scholars, the U.S. Supreme Court decision around religious schools in Maine has unique consequences for Vermont — and could require the state to rethink how it funds K-12 education.
