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Our Views of Women in the Military Demand Complexity

Donald Trumps reemerged tweet about sexual assault in the military has brought the topic of womens roles, rights, and risks in the armed forces to the forefront of discussion. In his recent interview with Matt Lauer, Trump defended his tweet from May 2013, which reads: 26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together. His logic suggests that the creation of an environment in which females and males are mingledwhether it be a place of work, an educational institution, or just plainly the worldnaturally encourages sexual assault. This tweet also implies that women are the ones who have been integrated into the military; they are the outsiders; they are the reason that these sexual assaults occur. To understand todays sentiments toward this issue, we have to look at the history of women in the U.S. military that is so often left out of textbooks.

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A Pro-Choice Argument for Investigating Planned Parenthood

Long marked by intense and polarizing opinions, the abortion debate has found its latest controversy. The topic in focus? Fetal tissue donation, in which researchers pay abortion providers for tissue samples from aborted fetuses. Two videos, both published by the Center for Medical Progress, an organization backed by pro-life group Live Action, have brought the issue to the forefront of public debate. In the first widely-circulated video, a Planned Parenthood employee discusses prices for fetal tissue samples, in addition to describing the abortion procedure in explicit detail. A second video, also depicting a conversation about buying fetal tissues for research, shows one Planned Parenthood employee joking that she wanted “a Lamborghini” as compensation.

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