A 17-year old with no visible means of financial support got an abortion this morning. Not news, you say? Look again. “Jane Doe” is an immigrant, an unaccompanied 17-year-old, living in the U.S. without benefit of documentation. When Jane Doe learned she was pregnant, she sought an abortion in Texas, where she is living. DisputesContinue reading “Rough “Justice” as a child’s child is killed”
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
The Mandate Takes a Hit. That’s Not Enough.
Nine months after taking office, five months after assuring the Little Sisters of the Poor that they could quit fearing fines, the Administration of President Donald Trump has announced a rollback of the HHS contraceptive mandate. I’m pleased that the President has followed through on a commitment he could have carried out his first dayContinue reading “The Mandate Takes a Hit. That’s Not Enough.”
Open Book: “Confessions of a Twentieth-Century Pilgrim”
For this month’s Open Book link-up, I offer Confessions of a Twentieth-Century Pilgrim by Malcolm Muggeridge (Harper & Row, 1988). I’m reaching back to my own bookshelf to pick up this short treat for the first time in many years. It’s not a full-dress autobiography (see Chronicles of Wasted Time for that). Instead, Confessions is a brief surveyContinue reading “Open Book: “Confessions of a Twentieth-Century Pilgrim””
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