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When I received a text telling me the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, it felt as if I could let out a breath I had been holding since I was a young child.

Student Wellness Services (SWS) is expanding its services with the hiring of a new clinical practitioner and a partnership with the Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, alongside continued guidance from the Student Advisory Committee established last spring.

The human right to individual liberty rests on a moral and rational foundation that was understood in ancient times, with the realization that the laws of rulers and legislatures must conform to the laws of nature so as not to infringe on the freedoms that are essential to human nature. Human beings possess reason and moral agency—the capacity to make moral choices; this is what forms the core of humanity.

With some 705,000 residents, Washington, D.C., has more people than the states of Vermont and Wyoming.

GOP lawmaker: D.C. statehood bill fails constitutionality test Monday, April 26, 2021  |  Chad Groening, Jody Brown (OneNewsNow.com) English Spanish Legislation passed by the U.S. House last week to grant statehood to the District of Columbia doesnt pass constitutional muster. Thats according to one of the Republicans who voted against it. Voting along party lines with minority Republicans in opposition (216-208), the House approved H.R. 51 to create a 51st state with one representativ...

GEORGE WILL WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled Congress will soon try to transform part of the District of Columbia, which today is about one-eighteenth the size of Rhode Island but 18.9% larger than Denver International Airport, into a state. This will involve theatrical and constitutional difficulties. The Democrats’ theatrical challenge will be to keep straight faces while insisting that their motivation is altruistic: indignation about D.C. residents paying federal taxes without bei...

George F. Will WASHINGTON—The Democratic-controlled Congress will soon try to transform part of the District of Columbia, which today is about one-eighteenth the size of Rhode Island but 18.9% larger than Denver International Airport, into a state. This will involve theatrical and constitutional difficulties. The Democrats’ theatrical challenge will be to keep straight faces while insisting that their motivation is altruistic: indignation about D.C. residents paying federa...

Dont show me this message again✕ The Stars and Stripes hangs over Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington DC – with an extra star symbolising the ambition of making the District of Columbia the 51st state of the USA (AFP via Getty Images) To many, the question of whether the nation’s capital should be a state was asked, answered and enshrined in the Constitution more than 200 years ago. Regardless, the debate will rage for as long as it is unlikely that a president signs into law the 51s...

By A. Kim | March 16, 2021 | 3:43pm EDT (Getty Images) (CNS News) – The Equality Act, which amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination based on “gender identity” and “sexual orientation,” was recently passed in the House of Representatives. Conservatives told CNS News that the legislation “ignores scientific and biological reality,” and a prominent libertarian said it “would undermine moral and legal principles and cultural s...

Republican Self-Government Versus Judicial Supremacy Last June, the Supreme Court made its ruling in  Bostock v. Clayton County, a case that asked whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited employers from discriminating against gay or transgender people. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, the Court’s liberal core, were predictably aligned in favor of the view that it did. Chief Justice John Roberts, whose positions on such cases...