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80The Stigma of Being a Snitch
While I was in college, I knew a woman who, while walking home one night, was assaulted outside an apartment building. She escaped from her attacker and ran into the locked entry. She began pushing door...
3 comments77Surviving the Death Penalty
In case you haven't guessed, I'm totally against the death penalty. It is, at the very least, hypocritical of the state to say "You cannot take another's life intentionally" and then turn around and say "But...
0 comments77Who Defines Morality?
Anyone reading my hubs will recognize some of the arguments used in this one because my biggest passion is protecting every individual's right to live his/her life as s/he sees fit— even if I find what that...
0 comments72Special Rights
Imagine getting ready to leave port on a cruise ship-- you, your spouse and your children-- only to have your spouse suddenly collapse. You're in a strange city and are forced to go to the nearest trauma...
0 comments74Child Abuse: A National Shame
Child abuse, like all forms of abuse, honors no borders created by man. It can be found amongst every socioeconomic class, every race, every gender, every age, every orientation, every faith/spiritual path....
0 comments69Why Did It Take So Long?
Recently, a justice of the peace in Louisiana refused to marry an interracial couple because, according to him, any children of the marriage would not be accepted by either race. This man has been a justice of...
2 comments68Abortion in the News
The first fetal rights were ironically granted by the US Supreme Court in the Roe v Wade decision by virtue of the fact that, while guaranteeing women the right to choose to terminate a pregnancy, put...
0 comments68Isms Are Still Alive and Thriving in America
Supposedly, we are the land of the free, where everyone is created equal. While our forefathers didn't follow their own laws, they did give us an ideal to aim for. Unfortunately, we're still far from that...
1 comment68The Sex God/dess
There's no denying that children today are exposed to so much more overt sexuality than they were even twenty years ago, let alone during the time I was raised. Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke slept in...
0 comments67Persistent Vegetative State
Two recent stories in the news have brought back to the forefront the condition of persistent vegetative state. PVS is medically diagnosed when someone has been in a coma for three or more years without the...
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