When do words kill in a democracy debate
An editorial ponders the link between rhetoric and action after Rabin’s assassination. It argues free speech protects protest even when harsh while noting lines drawn by libel and slander, asking whether incendiary speech should ever become illegal and urging countering with debate and discretion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iraeli
Yitzhak Rabin
Israel
Rabin
United States
Skokie
Chicago
Jenny Jones
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Great Britain
Mount Vernon hosts open house at Russell D. Cole Library
An open house 1 to 5 p.m. at the Russell D. Cole Library on Cornell College campus in Mount Vernon invites public tours of the renovated library. The event highlights a rare city college funding partnership and urges communities to consider shared library resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell D. Cole
Cornell College
Hall-Perrine Foundation
Mount Vernon
Andrew Carnegie Foundation
Coe’s
Mount Mercy
Cornell
Iowa
Cole
Partial birth abortion term sparks heated debate in Congress
A guest column argues the House bill to criminalize a late term procedure misnames it as partial birth abortion and favors the term dilation and extraction. The piece cites medical distinctions, political pressure, and calls for patient physician decision making.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. House of Representatives
Tom Harkin
Kcrg News Radio 1600
Harkin
Congress
Senate
Gianna Jessen
Heidi Huffman
House
U.S. Senate
Partial birth abortion debate and moral arguments
Samona Joy Smit argues against partial birth abortion calling it vile and urges Republican and Democratic leaders to support HR 1833 to ban the procedure. She cites Dr Haskell Dr McMahon nurse Brenda Shafer and medical experts to claim the method is elective and harms babies with disabilities. She warns against treating "Gerber babies" as less than human and argues protection of disabled infants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrea Sheldon
Traditional Values Coalition
Ms. Sheldon
Samona Joy Smits
U.S. House
Senate
Martin Haskell
Dayton
Ohio
James McMahon
Los Angeles
Calif
Haskell
National Abortion Federation
American Medical Association
McMahon
AMA News
Brenda Shafer
Pamela E. Smith
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Chicago
Mount Sinai Hospital
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J.F. Hladky Jr
Board of
Joe Hladky III
Ken Slaughter
Dale Larson
Jerry Elsen
Mark Bowden
USA Today
Vicki Wilson
Fresno
Vicki
Christian Coalition
Pat Robertson
Republican Party
Diane Pollack
Planned Parenthood
Barbara Allen
Cedar Rapids
St. Luke’s Hospital
Gerber
Samona Joy Smit
Iowa Right To Life Committee
Des Moines
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