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Opinion: At-home medical abortions are common. Policing them will threaten other rights

The next battleground over abortion rights won't be in front of abortion clinics but in the homes of women seeking to end unwanted pregnancies.

By St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Board (TNS) August 24, 2022

File photo by Gabriela Bhaskar of The New York Times / Misoprostol, center, and mifepristone, right, the prescriptions commonly used for medication abortion, are shown at a health center in Fort Myers, Florida, in May 2022.

Opinion: Dr. Fauci waged war on foolish refusals of facts. He’s earned America’s heartfelt thanks

Anthony Fauci is calling it a career. And the 81-year-old infectious disease expert -- one of the most visible health officials in the federal government's response to the coronavirus outbreak -- deserves America's heartfelt thanks.

By The Kansas City Star Editorial Board (TNS) August 24, 2022

File photo by Stefani Reynolds of The New York Times / Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, will step down from his position in December. Here he is shown at a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing in Washington, on Nov. 4, 2021.

Opinion: Are Tennessee lawmakers reading at pay-grade level?

In school performance, is the glass half empty or half full? But perhaps a more important question is what have our teachers most recently been tasked with doing?

By Pam Sohn August 23, 2022

Staff photo by Troy Stolt / Lael Marx, 5, flips through the pages of a book inside of the children's section of the Chattanooga Public Library on Monday, May 3, 2021 in Chattanooga, Tenn. Monday, the library reopened to the general public for daily service, after more than a year in which many of its services had been unavailable to promote social distancing in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Opinion: Scientists love issuing warnings. Here’s one for them

Climate-change activists should take some lessons from the mismanagement and miscommunication surrounding the pandemic. In both cases, people across the political spectrum feel helpless in the face of the problem. In both cases, experts need to figure out how to get people to overcome these feelings and act.

By Faye Flam / Bloomberg Opinion August 23, 2022

FILE - An air tanker flies past flames while battling the Oak Fire in Mariposa County, Calif., Sunday, July 24, 2022. Wildfires, floods and soaring temperatures have made climate change real to many Americans. Yet a sizeable number continue to dismiss the scientific consensus that human activity is to blame. That's in part because of a decades-long campaign by fossil fuel companies to muddy the facts and promote fringe explanations. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Opinion: Chattanoogans, too, will benefit from Inflation Reduction Act’s lower drug costs, less climate change

All over the news in recent days we've seen commentary exalting or decrying the newly signed Inflation Reduction Act, aimed primarily at lowering inflation through health and environmental costs -- some later rather than sooner, and even as more news rolls in of the record ice melts in Greenland and from the Alps in Europe.

By Pam Sohn August 22, 2022

Staff photo by Erin O. Smith / John Michael Sabourin, 2, plays in the fountain Monday, August 12, 2019 at Coolidge Park in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Sabourin family lives just across the river from Coolidge Park and makes regular trips to the take advantage of the fountain. The heat index on Tuesday is forecast to be over 100.

Opinion: Mike Pence is spineless

There is one thing about Mike Pence: He shows himself to be a spineless weasel every chance he gets.

By Charles M. Blow / The New York Times August 22, 2022

FILE — Former Vice President Mike Pence in Washington, June 9, 2022. “The public is left to parse oblique phrases as Pence attempts to put a little distance between himself and Trump without truly turning on him,” writes New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow. (Mark Peterson/The New York Times)

Opinion: What Biden has — and hasn’t — done

There's something strange in the D.C. air these days. It smells a bit like ... competence.

By Paul Krugman / The New York Times August 21, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks before signing the Democrats' landmark climate change and health care bill in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Aug. 16, 2022. Biden and his allies hope big recent wins on climate, health care and more will at least temporarily tamp down questions among top Democrats about whether he will run for reelection. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Opinion: Up to date on polio, other vaccinations?

"It is never too late to get caught up with a vaccine series."

By The Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial board (TNS) August 21, 2022

A health worker gives a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, file)

Opinion: Mayor Tim Kelly, Chattanooga made us proud helping immigrants seeking asylum

Let's give a big Texas hats off to Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly and his staff for heading off at the pass Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the GOP's immigration-scare campaign when charter buses from the Lone Star State began to pass through our city. When the buses stopped to change drivers, some desperate asylum seekers got off -- looking for any help, direction and way closer to safety they could find.

By Pam Sohn August 20, 2022

Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly addresses the City Council during a meeting on Tuesday, August 9, 2022.

Opinion: Salman Rushdie and the defense of hate speech

"Professor, why should we allow hate speech?"

By The Chicago Tribune August 20, 2022

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