Roughly five years before Roe v. Wade, I became a pro-lifer. It was in the late 60s, and as an undergraduate student in biology, I was taking a course in vertebrate development. The professor had shown us a film called "The First Days of Life," a beautiful film in the days before ultrasound, with images of developing life, from conception, through various stages until birth. I wasn't a particularly religious person at the time, but when I came out of that auditorium after seeing those images of prenatal children, I felt as if I had just seen an honest-to-God miracle. That feeling is still with me today.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama delivers his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night to a nation whose economy is far sturdier than it was when he took office in 2009.
Yet as 2016 begins, the stout job market is accompanied by tepid economic growth and stubbornly flat wages. More broadly, two things are on the rise, to the president's dismay: global temperatures and Americans' concerns about terrorism.
