Opinion from Ruth Wagner
Having read the recent spate of incendiary anti-abortion letters in local newspapers, I am compelled to respond.
Pro-choice means that a woman has control of her own life and her own body.
Having been raised a strict Catholic, I left the organized church over contraception, not abortion.
The issues that we should be discussing are: [...]

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by Thomas Thornburg
When the Kankana-ey prepared
The squatting corpse of Apo Annu
It was because they, deeply caring,
Mourned the warrior-priest’s departing;
Thus at his passage into night
There were to be no photos taken,
No sneezing, broken glass, or fighting,
And, lest his spirit be forsaken,
No farting.
For months before the hero died
They funneled salt in him and dried
Him, then put him [...]

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