Daily Archives: April 2015

Analysis: Time for Alaska to rethink ‘right to privacy’ relating to abortion

Mario Bird
ALASKA NEWS, EDITOR'S PICKS, FEATURED, FORUM, OPINION
April 2015

Most states took Roe as the final judicial word on abortion. Alaska was no exception. No one expected that a judge would use the right to privacy in Alaska’s constitution to further liberalize abortion, firstly because the United States Supreme Court had the opportunity to do so, and did not.

Alaska ‘homeless’ shelter offers ‘safe, functional home’

Lisa DH Aquino
EDITOR'S PICKS, FORUM, OPINION
April 2015

Here at Catholic Social Services, we recently received a letter from a former client. At an unexpected crisis point in his life he found himself homeless and with nowhere to turn. He turned to the Brother Francis Shelter, but he came to us with low expectations and filled with fear of personal danger, as well as fear of being judged. His experience changed his view of shelters and of being homeless.