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| It's that time of the week when subscribers get their own USA TODAY Opinion newsletter. These are the columns, from this week, that got your attention, so we're bringing them back today. |
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| By Nicole Carroll |
| My mom had written an account of the legal abortion she had in Texas in 1975, why she made that decision and how it almost killed her. It was typed, with handwritten edits and a bibliography, the paper now soft and yellow. |
| "I have often wondered if the telling of my experience would benefit others or was it 'passe' with the increasing acceptance of the operation," she wrote. |
 | | May 9, 2022; Amarillo, TX, USA; Nicole Carroll holds a picture of her mother, Judy Carroll, while looking through mementos of her mother with her Uncle Larry Hamilton, May 9, 2022 in Amarillo, Texas.. Mandatory Credit: Jessica Koscielniak-USA TODAY (Via OlyDrop) | | Jessica Koscielniak, USA TODAY | |
| She wanted to explain why a woman might choose an abortion. She quoted from a 1982 abortion handbook, "If abortion is ever to be demystified, we must work together to make it happen. … We can do that by talking about our experiences." |
| She wrote this story in 1983, when I was 15. I had known about the abortion; I didn't know the details. Now here they were. Simple facts in some places, graphic details in others. She changed the names of the main characters, but kept the initials. My mom, Judy, became Julie. My uncle, Larry, became Lonnie. (READ MORE) |
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| By Sen. John Barrasso |
| In an unguarded moment during his recent trip to Japan, President Joe Biden gushed, "When it comes to the gas prices, we're going through an incredible transition." His economic adviser also argued that the president's energy transition "works better for families." |
| The president has misdiagnosed what ails our energy economy. He is engaging in political malpractice. |
| The president is beholden to climate extremists, and his administration is using every tool available to block American energy production. His administration is forcing American families through an energy transition that has no credible economic or technological path forward. It is a bitter pill to swallow. (READ MORE) |
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| By Jill Lawrence |
| Aging has been on my mind lately. That's not surprising given that my parents are in their 90s. But the real jolt came at a Bonnie Raitt-Lucinda Williams concert this month. |
 | | President Joe Biden's public approval rating fell for a fourth straight week to 36% matching its lowest level last seen in late May, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on June 22, 2022. | | Susan Walsh/AP | |
| While Raitt at 72 met the expectations I had built up over 45 years of fandom at a distance, I gasped when an escort guided Williams to a mic stand onstage. She clutched it as she sang, motionless and guitar-less, for the entire set. I learned from a quick phone search that she is 69 and had a stroke in 2020. |
| That was a blinding reality flash about aging and fragility – a moment that makes you think about what's ahead and, whether you're a musician or a writer or a politician, how you can never know. (READ MORE) |
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| By Carli Pierson |
| Andree Geulen was a 20-year-old teacher in Nazi-occupied Belgium when she noticed that Jewish students at her all-girls school were coming to class wearing yellow stars, or just not showing up at all. She told all her students, including those who weren't Jewish, to wear an apron to school to cover the hateful symbol. |
 | | Andree Geulen, a courier who would pick up Jewish children from their homes to hide them, with a fully uniformed Nazi officer behind her. At that exact moment, Geulen had a slip of paper in her shoe with the names of two children she was en route to pick up. Her grandson, Nicolas, said, "She could have been caught at any moment." | | Kazerne Dossin/Courtesy family of Andree Geulen | |
| That was just the beginning. Geulen would go on to save at least 300 Jewish children herself and more than 2,000 with her group of resistance operators during the Holocaust. |
| She died on May 31 in Belgium. She was 100 years old. (READ MORE) |
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| Michael Pack and Mark Paoletta |
| As the Supreme Court's term draws to a close, we all expect some significant decision on abortion and other hot-button issues. As the leader of the originalist wing of the court, Justice Clarence Thomas has come under intense scrutiny and political pressure. |
| We may offer some insight into the question of what Thomas might do, though he is famously his own man, so no one knows for sure. (READ MORE) |
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