Undercurrents

He was charming, the man who stopped me on the sidewalk. It was the day of the annual Burnsville Christmas parade, an unseasonably warm and sunny Saturday afternoon. I was standing outside a friend’s shoe store waiting for the parade to begin and wishing I could...

“The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated less than a fully adult human responsible for her...