The United States Supreme Court has reversed Roe v. Wade, ending 50 years under one of the world’s most permissive abortion regimes. The American abortion landscape has been fundamentally altered with the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. As tensions flare, we must consider the international implications of this momentous ruling, with an […]
Dear Editor, Maam This letter is in response to the Gleaner’s Editorial which seeks to reenergize efforts towards the death of future Jamaicans. It seems the self-inflicted panic of death-lovers in the United States caused by the leak of the first draft of the majority opinion of Chief Justice Alito has caused the skin of […]
The Editor SIR, This letter is in response to the news article published in the Jamaica Gleaner on Sunday January 3, 2021 titled, ‘New year hope- First babies of 2021 blessing for moms’, which illuminates the hypocrisy and conflict of interest exuding from the State Minister of Health Mrs. Cuthbert Flynn as she visited three […]
Defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as “the ability to continue to exist or develop as a living being or the ability to survive or live successfully”. In obstetrics, an unborn baby is considered viable at gestational age (GA) 24 weeks and has a much greater chance of survival with increased GA. The American College of […]
Reply to the Letter Of The Day 8 Aug, 2019: The Right To Choose A Basic Human Right, Kimon Blackwood THE EDITOR: Dear sir: One of my friends was killed recently in a car crash. We hadn’t seen each other in years, but we had a real bond and I thankfully got the chance […]
A Gleaner editorial published on January 31, 2021, detailed that Jamaican taxpayers spend an estimated $1.4 million USD on complications due to botched abortions yearly. MP Cuthbert-Flynn has recently lamented on the Caribbean Policy Research Institute’s (CAPRI) Livestream on Feb 4, 2021, that “we need to focus on the reality not the morality of abortion”. […]
There has been a lot of controversy in recent weeks regarding the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) study “Coming to Terms with the Social Costs of Unequal Access to Safe Abortions” which advocated for: 1) a secret conscience vote of parliament to legalize abortion, 2) minors to access abortions without parental consent, and 3) taxpayer-funded […]
Dear Editor, If the National Family Planning Board (NFPB) is really geared towards sexual and reproductive health, then arguments to legalize abortion should not even be considered because legalization of abortion contradicts its mandate. Efforts to circumvent the social issues that prevail will be futile if the NFPB continues to make the distribution of condoms […]
Wide-ranging presentations were made yesterday to the joint select committee of Parliament reviewing the Sexual Offences Act and related laws, with four groups registering strong positions on several issues such as abortion, sexual offences against children, and retention of the ‘buggery law’. Nadeen Spence, co-founder of the Tambourine Army, called for jury trials in rape […]
THE EDITOR, Sir: The battle lines are being drawn in a very important debate which has at its core – concerns related to the sanctity of life. Over the last seven months, there has been a very obvious effort to jolt the nation into a lively discussion on abortion. A philosophical analysis of the debate […]
