Abortion contrary to feminist ideals, unsafe

In her letter this week, Lauren Eggert-Crowe asserted that abortion is safe. For whom, exactly, is it safe? In every abortion, one human being dies ÷ this is a medical and scientific fact. How safe can a procedure be when it is invasive, violent and, 98 percent of the time, elective?

Would anyone call elective heart surgery "safe?"

It is quite puzzling to me that the American medical community, including some of the staff and students at the UA, has the ability to, on the one hand, protect the unborn fetus as a person when it is "wanted" and, in another case, destroy that same fetus if it is "unwanted." [Read article]

Students at the UA often may not see the connection between university life and Tucson city politics. But if there was ever a time when that connection was clear, it is now, with the issue of transportation in Tucson.

This summer the Arizona Board of Regents approved a long-range campus development plan for the UA that would include an increase in on-campus parking by 800 spaces. Those 800 spaces, however, will fall dramatically short of serving demand for on-campus parking, which is estimated at between 15,000 and 25,000 new drivers. [Read article]

For the next two months, students will be greeted by "Border Dynamics," a new work of art alongside the Mall. The piece features four 14-feet tall human figures of steel on either side of a replica of the U.S.-Mexico border. It's commissioned by Beyond Borders, a Tucson-based non-profit organization whose mission, in part, is to promote art "to focus international attention on the unique culture created by the · border." Beyond Borders has expressed the hope that the project will show that humanity has no borders, but opinions about exactly what the statues are doing ÷ holding up the border or pushing it down ÷ will vary. [Read article]