To a high school quarterback in his senior year, a football scholarship to a Division I college means a bright future—maybe even a pro career. In 2012, that was the future of Sam Riddle of Century High School in Portland, Oregon. He’d turned his high school team around and earned a shot on a bigger
Several years ago, I lost an unborn child to an abortion I did not want. I tried to persuade my then girlfriend to keep the baby but her mind was made up. The pain I felt was compounded by my inability to stop it. All too often, abortion is framed as a ‘women’s issue’ even
There were several factors that kept my admission of emotional discomfort quiet after my girlfriend’s abortion. The first factor was the vain attempt to believe that what we had done was perfectly alright. Any emotional discomfort I felt was simply due to the reality that I was not accepting the facts. The facts were that this had been