POLITOPICS

On WAPO's Faith Blog, Vernon Jordan does a piece on race & reconciliation, which may mean something different for blacks who grew up in the south during Jim Crow than others. On Faith: Guest Voices: Reconciled with the Future. "THEIR EMBRACE OF RECONCILIATION WITH THE WHITE SOUTH AND WITH THE WHOLE OF WHITE AMERICA WAS GROUNDED IN THEIR VISION OF A FUTURE IN WHICH BLACK AMERICANS WOULD LIVE AS FREE MEN AND WOMEN – A VISION BLACK AMERICANS HAVE CARRIED WITH THEM SINCE WE LANDED ON THESE SHORES – DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE DIDN’T COME WILLINGLY."
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Birth control for college students & poor women is a very serious issue and not just moral one. It's also an economic issue. Big Rise in Cost of Birth Control on Campuses - New York Times. What college student do you know that can spend $50/month on birth control. And these are all adults, so parental consent isn't an issue.

"In health centers at hundreds of colleges and universities around the country, young women are paying sharply higher prices for prescription contraceptives because of a change in federal law. The increases have meant that some students using popular birth control pills and other products are paying three and four times as much as they did several months ago. The higher prices have also affected about 400 community health centers nationwide used by poor women. The change is due to a provision in a federal law that ended a practice by which drug manufacturers provided prescription contraception to the health centers at deeply discounted rates. The centers then passed along the savings to students and others."