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Pro-birth vs. pro-life: Conservatives are disregarding circumstances

Caroline Trimble ’26, Hawk Columnist October 2, 2024

Although Project 2025 hails the overturning of Roe v. Wade as “the greatest pro-family win in a generation,” this is only the beginning of the conservative agenda to rid the nation of abortion...

GRAPHIC: STEPHANIE SAVELA ’25/THE HAWK

Keep religion out of politics

Caroline Trimble ’26, Hawk Columnist September 11, 2024

The controversy around whether or not one should be able to end their pregnancy often stems from religious beliefs, not political ideologies. When looking at the general U.S. population, approximately...

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Arizona’s reinstated 1864 abortion ban is inherently un-American

Caroline Trimble ’26 April 24, 2024
Disrupting the balance between interests
S.B. 8 deprives healthcare rights for women

S.B. 8 deprives healthcare rights for women

Sehar Macan-Markar September 15, 2021

How the Texas bill threatens women’s health and safety For almost five decades, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 has upheld women’s rights to have an abortion up until 24 weeks...

Texas’ Heartbeat Act

Texas’ Heartbeat Act

Eddie Daou September 14, 2021

What is Texas’ new abortion law? A controversial new law in Texas banning most abortions after six weeks went into effect on Sept. 1. The Texas Heartbeat Act, S.B. 8, bans abortions once any cardiac...

Abortion access faces the Supreme Court

Abortion access faces the Supreme Court

Regina Schliep October 22, 2019

The implications of June Medical Services v. Gee The Supreme Court announced on Oct. 4 that it will hear June Medical Services v. Gee, a case that challenges a 2014 Louisiana law requiring abortion providers...

Restrict choice, restrict freedom

Restrict choice, restrict freedom

Brittany Swift March 26, 2018

The necessity of a woman's right to abortion The state of Mississippi passed the Gestational Age Act on March 19, which bans most abortions after 15 weeks—the most restrictive abortion law any of the...

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