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If Abortion Rights, then the Right of Parental Surrender

For the past 49 years, abortion rights in the U.S. have been solely a creature of constitutional law.  The right of privacy created by Supreme Court precedents that, in turn, created the right to an abortion, applied, of course, only to women.  Men naturally had no right to privacy as it applied to pregnancy and …

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Going rogue with Royko

The wisecracking, street-smart newspaperman was something of a stock character in old movies (notably The Front Page in 1931).  Such movies often portrayed aggressive, ambitious reporters competing against one another for stories while working for morally-challenged editors and publishers seeking to boost circulation by any means necessary. For the most part, journalism was a rough-and-tumble …

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