Amy Chua and Peggy Orenstein explore and illustrate the pitfalls of parenting.
Sarah Blustain
Sarah Blustain is the former deputy editor of the American Prospect.
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Do women have the clout that they ought to in progressive politics?
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This Is Murder?
A 30-year-old mother with a history of dug abuse is charged with first and second degree murder after her child is stillborn.Is prosecuting her really the solution?
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No Country for Mothers
The U.S. average life expectancy is greater than ever — for everyone but pregnant women.
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SEEKING ANTI-ABORTION LAWYER, ASAP.
SEEKING ANTI-ABORTION LAWYER, ASAP. There’s a lot of mopping up to do after Gonzales v. Carhart, and Americans United for Life, one of the central addresses for model anti-abortion legislation, is getting busy. In a letter on AUL’s website, under the headline “A New Dawn,” the group’s president lays out its strategy for a post-Carhart […]
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Beyond Regret
Simple facts have not proven a useful tool in the fight to uphold abortion rights. Pro-choicers need to craft an emotional counter-narrative that rings true for — and about — women.
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The Right Not to Choose
TAP talks to prominent anti-abortion lawyer Harold Cassidy.
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NEW PATERNALISM.
NEW PATERNALISM. I finally reached my friend and coauthor Reva Siegel, who has long seen in her crystal ball up at Yale Law School what only appeared to the rest of the world in yesterday�s �partial birth� opinion from SCOTUS: that the anti-abortion movement reframed its arguments against abortion in ways that seem to protect […]
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Consenting Adults
South Dakota voters may have overturned the state’s abortion ban last year, but the fight over a companion piece of extreme anti-choice legislation, passed in the same period as the ban, is raging in the courts. On Wednesday, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on whether to allow South Dakota’s draconian informed consent […]
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Oversexed
Kristin Luker’s useful history of sex education hits the right notes, until she tries too hard to please all sides.
