Supporting a ban on abortion at an arbitrary gestational age means forcing women to give birth to babies they will have to watch die.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Commentary: ‘The isolation and loneliness really get to me’ and ‘l I think about dying’
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Maine Voices: January lays bare the greatest conspiracy of them all
Sure, the month is drawing to a close. But we can’t get complacent.
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Rep. Katrina Smith: Parents’ rights are being taken away at schools
Schools across Maine are enacting policies that treat a parent as the secondary authority of their child’s emotional and physical well-being, writes the first-term state representative from Palermo.
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Douglas Rooks: Abortion bills in Maine Legislature need careful scrutiny
For countless Americans, the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Care was a cataclysm. A constitutional right that women and their families had possessed for nearly half a century was suddenly taken away. The only comparable ruling in the Supreme Court’s entire history is Dred Scott v. Sanford, handed down in 1857, […]
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Commentary: Let’s let Maine parents decide how to spend on education
Arizona is leading the way with a voucher-style universal school choice program. Maine can do the same.
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Commentary: We already know which gun policies work
Bloomberg Opinion (TNS)
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Maine Voices: We need more grid capacity – and we need it now
Grid-enhancing technologies are already in place and proven in regional transmission systems across the U.S. and Europe. Maine must be next.
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Maine Voices: Is the Doomsday Clock about to move closer to midnight?
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ clock was first set at the start of the Cold War. On Tuesday, we’ll find out how much closer the world is to self-destruction in 2023.
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Tom Waddell: Fight over abortion rights continues at the state level
Since the Supreme Court all but overturned Roe v. Wade by allowing states to honor or deny a woman’s constitutional right to choose, freedom-loving abortion advocates are pushing back at the state level. California, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, New York and South Carolina each acted to protect a woman’s right to an abortion in 2022. Some […]