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Abortion and the US Republican Party

Heather Hastie — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 04:33:34 +0000

Before I start, I should note I am unapologetically pro-choice. I’ve been pro-choice for as long as I can remember. I recall thinking women should be able to have an abortion, if they want one, when I was just eight year old (1972-73). (New Zealand’s Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Bill was making its way through […]

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Heather’s Homilies on Facebook

Heather Hastie — Mon, 27 May 2019 02:53:37 +0000

I have to apologize to you all because it’s been so long since I’ve put anything on the website. For those who are on Facebook, there is a Heather’s Homilies Facebook page. On a reasonably regular basis I post news stories there along with a short commentary of my own. I know it’s not much, […]

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US Politics of Single-Payer Healthcare and Abortion

Heather Hastie — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 02:06:49 +0000

As regular readers know, I’ve written multiple posts over the years about why I think the US needs a single-payer healthcare system. The most recent was less than two months ago: ‘The Benefits of a Single-Payer Healthcare System‘. As the only OECD country without such a system, the US is an outlier. In my opinion, […]

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Kavanaugh Confirmation and Ford Accusation

Heather Hastie — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 02:48:46 +0000

For days I’ve been trying to write a post about Professor Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when the two were teens. And for days I’ve been deleting everything I wrote and starting again. I want to be fair. I want to get it right. The problem is we can’t […]

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Voting for the US Supreme Court

Heather Hastie — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 04:04:36 +0000

The two main candidates for the United States presidency both have a problem appealing to voters in terms of favourability and trustworthiness. Personally I consider the claims of Hillary Clinton’s dishonesty to be overblown, which I wrote about here. In fact, analysis of her statements in the course of the election shows she is actually […]

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Ted Cruz vs Donald Trump on Policy

Heather Hastie — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 04:33:43 +0000

Most reasonable people, including myself, have been appalled by the possibility that Donald Trump could be the next president of the United States. He is currently way ahead in the delegate count and there’s a mathematical possibility that he’ll reach the 1237 delegates required in the primaries to win the Republican party nomination for president. […]

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Trump’s Abortion Comment

Heather Hastie — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 02:29:15 +0000

Trump’s response to Chris Matthews in an MSNBC Town Hall is well known by now: https://youtu.be/i2mHh9TtEks Trump clearly didn’t have a response ready for this question and was thinking on his feet. His immediate instinct though was that women are doing something illegal and need to be punished. Although it’s not in the clip, and […]

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US Attitudes to Abortion

Heather Hastie — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:21:05 +0000

8 March is International Women’s Day. Although women have made enormous strides towards equality just in my lifetime, there are still millions of women who are subjugated and even in the West, still plenty of anti-women laws. There are many countries I could pick on, but given that the United States is currently in the […]

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The Value of Prayer

Heather Hastie — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 06:22:00 +0000

Last Friday (4 September) regular commenter on Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True website Ben Goren, wrote a guest piece: The One Question a Christian Can’t Answer. It was about the big problem with Christian belief: why God doesn’t intervene to help – the problem of evil. It’s a great piece and provoked an enormous […]

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