The War on Childhood: President Obama and Plan B

Twelve-year-olds popping morning-after pills like candy?

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Every Life, Every Story: Un-Replicable

One advantage to driving into Columbus once a week to work at ORTL is that I can spend some time with my family in the city before heading back to the school on the hill. A couple of Fridays ago, I did just that. My mom and I met my maternal grandparents for dinner at Cracker Barrel on what seemed like the first autumn evening of the year. After a couple of mugs of hot chocolate (with whipped cream!) and dinner, of course, my mom and I met my grandparents back at their house. Having been at school for the last three years, I haven’t spent as much time at my grandparents'’ house as I did when I was growing up. That Friday was a nice opportunity to drink in the warmth of their house again.

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Abortion and the Reconstruction of the Family Unit

How many hands besides the hand of Nature should enter into the creation of a family? There is the mother and there is the father, and at the end of the day, (at the risk of taking his words out of context and placing them in a broader ideological context once again) Obama shouldn’t be able to knock them down by saying, “You didn’t build that!” and re-attributing the creation of a family to a government that supports eugenics and abortion as part of that creative process.

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