Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.John F. Kennedy

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  • Elizabeth The Human Being

    Now that the festivities of the Jubilee are over and the excitement abated  one can stop and look at the life of Elizabeth  II in plainer terms without the context of  her belonging to a royal family. She was and is irretrievably a human being and because I believe that our lives are meant to…

  • Anti-Abortion Activists in Spain

    Spain as we know is a conservative Catholic country. Yet in 1985 it decriminalized abortion in the case of rape, an abnormal fetus or harm to the physical or psychological health of the mother. In 2014  the law was widened to be abortion on demand for the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.  In practice the…

  • The Names of Both Parents

    It is now a norm that women either keep their own names when they marry or hyphenate their own names with that of their spouse. And yet this norm does not yet apply to the children. But  the Constitutional  court in Italy is changing that. It just overturned the tradition that a child is only…

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