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Boas Vindas! Portugal joins the free world by legalizing a woman's right to choose
This from the Portugal to legalize abortion, conservatives shaken - washingtonpost.com:
Under the current ban, women caught aborting can go to jail for up to three years.
When the ban is lifted, Portugal will join most European countries in allowing abortions, except a small group with strict abortion laws -- Malta, Ireland and Poland.
Liberals now hope other progressive laws can be passed as in neighboring Spain, such as allowing gay marriage.
The conservative camp, led by the head of Portugal's Catholic Democratic party, Jose Ribeiro e Castro, said this was a "sad chapter in Portugal's history" and blamed Socrates for insisting on a move that split Portuguese society.
More than half the traditionally Catholic nation's 8.7 million electorate abstained, but of those who voted in Sunday's referendum, 59.3 percent voted to lift the abortion ban and 40.8 percent to keep it.
Democracy cannot flourish if women do not have the right to exercising their free will. Anti-abortion laws are just another name for reproductive slavery.
A country is not conservative if it has laws denying women equal reproductive rights. Said country is a tyranny when it forces women --and for that matter families-- to take extreme measures when it comes to their free will.
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Education IS Democratic Engagement
Famously opposed educators come together:
"Our macro-level differences do not interfere with our mutual respect for each other’s work.
That itself is something we hope our schools can help teach young people.
Our differences helped us consider ways to rethink our ideas and find places where those holding different views might compromise, and perhaps learn to live under one umbrella.
What we hope to model is the idea of democratic engagement, the notion that citizens need to think about and debate their beliefs and values with others who do not necessarily share all of them.
We want the issues connected to schooling to be a matter for discussion among all people who care.
We don’t have it in our power to solve the problems that confront American education—not those that take place within the schoolhouse, much less those that have a direct impact on children’s ability to learn, such as their unequal access to health care, housing, and myriad other life necessities.
But we hope that we have it in our power to provoke the thinking that must precede, accompany, and follow any attempt to reform—perhaps, even better, to transform—our schools."
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