Against an increasingly contentious backdrop, the bill introduced by Gov. Mills this week will have to be the first of many attempts to ensure that a personal decision can be made personally.
Siobhan Brett
Editorial Page Editor
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: We know more than enough about PFAS to restrict their use
What is harming the ‘daily lives of Americans’ is not regulatory overreach. It’s constant exposure to hazardous chemicals damaging our health.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Speaker Talbot Ross: ‘Health care for all’ must not rule out immigrants
It’s time to close a small but unjust gap in MaineCare and return our state to its longstanding practice of greater inclusion.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Efforts to stamp out medication abortion threaten all women
If anti-abortion zealots succeed in banning misoprostol, it will be denied to patients who need it for many more reasons than to terminate a pregnancy.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: It’s time to talk about fentanyl ingestion in children
The first problem is failure to test for fentanyl when a drug test is ordered. The second problem is timely recognition and treatment of opioid ingestion in children, which is nowhere near as rare as we like to think.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Emphasis on revenue sabotages medical practices and hospitals
At some point, most of us who entered medicine for altruistic reasons find ourselves providing a declining quality of care.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Anti-trans obsessions have zero connection to reality
The term ‘transgenderism’ frames it as a choice. (Remember the gay ‘lifestyle’?) It’s not a choice, nor a modern invention.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Stigma surrounding community college sets everybody back
Kids enrolling in two-year institutions allow themselves the time and space to figure things out. Way more of them should be doing it.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: No public mission, no public money
It’s the Bangor Christian School’s style of faith that has turned my generation away from organized religion.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: These days, why compromise at all?
America seems to have forgotten the meaning of the term. What we have instead freezes discussion and fosters discord.