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The Chimes
The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes
The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes

State lawsuits against Trump’s Title X funding holds women’s healthcare as hostage

The new legal cases against the U.S. Department of Health reveal the debate is not about women’s healthcare, but about obtaining taxpayer-funded abortions.
Logan Zeppieri, Opinions Editor • March 18, 2019

If you throw a rock into a pack of wolves, the one that barks is the one that was hit. After the U.S. Department of Health put into effect the new funding rules in the federal Title X family planning program—covered previously—22 states, including the District of Columbia and Planned Parenthood,...

Feinstein’s shocking statistics misrepresent the abortion debate

Illustration of Brett Kavanaugh
Amid a heavily distorted debate, the anti-abortion position is gleaning its first light.
Logan Zeppieri, Opinions Editor • September 10, 2018

On Sep. 5, Sen. Dianne Feinstein began probing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s position on Roe v. Wade by providing shocking statistics. “In the last two decades before Roe,” Feinstein said, “deaths from illegal abortions in this country ran between 200,000 and 1.2 million,” per...