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In In re the Marriage of John and Angela Bell, (CA App., Nov. 18, 2011), a California appellate court upheld a trial court’s order in a marriage dissolution case preventing the father from continuing taking the couple’s young children to Mormon religious services and Sunday School without the mother’s consent.  The order would expire when the [...]

When a travel document is issued, it has twenty-four sheets that are blank. For the individual who does not travel outside of the US often, this number of sheets is enough. There are many people, however, who do travel abroad regularly and will use the blank sheets up quickly. The Department of State allows three [...]

The Washington Post published Roger Clegg’s long letter to the editor in response to hiring more Hispanic teachers: “The gist of the Nov. 16 news article ‘In search of Hispanic teachers‘ was that, because the number of Hispanic students is growing, Prince George’s County public schools and school systems elsewhere want to hire more Hispanic [...]

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I had the privilege of being asked to read and review a Life Choices: The Teachings of Abortion by abortion care pioneer Linda Weber. As someone who’s worked in abortion care myself, I was curious to hear what someone who’s worked in the field for decades had to say about the future of abortion care and how we [...]

CNN yesterday posted a lengthy report on Republican Presidential hopeful Herman Cain’s religious faith and his active involvement as an associate minister in Atlanta’s Antioch Baptist Church– a congregation Cain’s parents joined when Cain was 10 years old.  CNN reports: Cain’s religiosity runs deep enough that he regularly delivers sermons at his childhood church, has [...]

Get excited! DC Abortion Fund’s annual Peace, Joy, and Choice holiday party fundraiser is less than a month away! This year, we’re embracing our friend Teh Internets and encouraging you to buy your holiday party tickets ahead of time online. Then you’ll be on our Extra Special Guest List and can breeze through registration [...] [...]

The DC Abortion Fund commends Delegate Eleanor Holmes Nortion, Mayor Vincent Gray, and the D.C. Council for rejecting this week Rep. Darrell Issa’s flawed “autonomy” bill for the District of Columbia. We thank them for continuing to affirm today that women’s rights are non-negotiable in the District of Columbia. We remain fully committed [...] The [...]

Image used with permission To track and surveil citizens online, repressive regimes in the Middle East and North Africa have relied on Western technology for years. US company BlueCoat has been accused for months of providing the Assads with products for online crackdown, and the firm finally acknowledged that the Syrian regime has been using [...]

So now it’s controversial to propose that race not be a factor in receiving taxpayer-funded government grants. How, in such a short period of time, did we arrive here? A state assembly member in Wisconsin, a Democrat, introduced a measure that would eliminate considerations of race in the Talent Incentive Grant. Is the proposed amendment [...]