First Things RSS Feed - Sarah Degner Riveros https://www.firstthings.com/author/sarah-degner-riveros en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:33 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/sarah-degner-riveros 60 Angelina Jolie’s Choice, and Ours https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/05/angelina-jolies-choice-and-ours https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/05/angelina-jolies-choice-and-ours Fri, 17 May 2013 00:01:00 -0400 Jolie Angelina Jolie has gone public with her decision to have a preventative double mastectomy at age thirty-seven. She lost her mother young to cancer, and her doctors urged her to remove her breasts after she underwent testing that placed her in a high-risk category for future cancer.

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]]> Time for Pro-Lifers to Learn How to Talk About Rape https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/04/time-for-pro-lifers-to-learn-how-to-talk-about-rape https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/04/time-for-pro-lifers-to-learn-how-to-talk-about-rape Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:01:00 -0400 Last month, a Swiss woman biking through India with her husband was gang raped by five attackers. In December, a female medical student, accompanied by a male friend, was riding a bus in Delhi, India, when she was brutally gang raped by eight passengers who then threw her off the moving bus. She suffered severe trauma to her brain and body, and within days she died of organ failure. One of the accused attackers committed suicide while imprisoned awaiting trial. India’s government is discussing how to prevent and punish rape in a nation where the violation of women is a commonplace occurrence.

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