Reading Time: 5 minutes The Somerville City Council voted unanimously to grant polyamorists, and others living in non-nuclear families, status as a protected class.
Dr. Abby Hafer
Abby Hafer is a biologist, educator, and public speaker. She has a doctorate in zoology from Oxford University and teaches human anatomy and physiology at Curry College. Her written works include the books The Not-So-Intelligent Designer, and Darwin’s Apostles. She debunks the gender binary, Creationism/Intelligent Design, and anti-abortion myths using humor and bullet-proof science.
Posted inPolitics
The clear and present danger of a Senator Herschel Walker
Reading Time: 3 minutes As Georgia’s runoff election for the US Senate enters the early voting period, every reasonably-informed voter must know that Herschel Walker is a deeply flawed human being. But one of those flaws makes him an especially dangerous Senate candidate.
Posted inTrue Story
Supporting the people of Ukraine, one pizza at a time
Reading Time: 7 minutes The team drives through the decimated streets of Kharkiv, intent on their mission. Their armored car passes rubble from the pock-marked buildings, shattered by the nightly shelling. They are wearing bulletproof vests, as always. Without warning, shells fall from the sky, exploding all around their vehicle. Amazingly, the crew gets through intact. Is this a […]
Posted inHealth
The busiest abortionist
Reading Time: 5 minutes “They took it out in pieces,” she told me. My friend was discussing a pregnancy that she had very much wanted as a married woman in her 20s. It had failed inside her and had to be removed, as she said, in pieces. Otherwise, she would have died of sepsis. She was devastated by this loss. […]
Posted inReproductive rights
Do pregnant women have fewer rights than the dead?
Reading Time: 6 minutes My grandmother had a rare blood type. Every so often, she’d get a phone call from the local hospital: could she please give blood—now? This was in the days before blood could be frozen, so blood of a rare type was rarely on hand when someone needed it. So if a person had a rare […]
Posted inBiology
A biologist explains why ‘heartbeat laws’ are nonsensical
Reading Time: 5 minutes The proliferation of anti-abortion ‘heartbeat laws’ cynically conflate the spontaneous pulsing of cardiac cells with the beating of a heart, and the beating of a heart with the presence of a soul. Such magical thinking belongs nowhere near the laws of a secular democracy.