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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Medical abortion: An overview of a safe, but opposed, procedure

Benjamin Pollock March 27, 2023
Instead of focusing on the grim reality of this attack on reproductive rights, I want to use this space to discuss the scientific facts about medical abortions and the benefits abortion access affords.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Highway to Health: Ukraine’s reproductive health crisis

Bailey Salimes April 28, 2022
Sexual assault medical care and rape crisis centers tend to receive the least amount of attention during crises, even though demand is high.
Sophia Flissler / DFP Staff

Let Your Hair Down: The pressure to succeed pollutes our creativity

Hannah Bohn November 16, 2021
In a society that overly incentivizes success in the form of monetary value, creativity and expression often falls by the wayside.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Let Your Hair Down: A society obsessed with aging

Hannah Bohn November 3, 2021
Society has a compulsive fixation on youthfulness, but to what end?
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: We are all the same despite life differences

Max Ferrandino March 3, 2021
Regardless of who you identify as, you should realize you are the same as everyone else. Minute differences in external appearance or political ideology do not give you the right to judge, belittle or harm someone.
KASTRITIS: A scientific understanding for the law

KASTRITIS: A scientific understanding for the law

Elias Kastritis November 27, 2016

Nowadays, there is a regrettable ambiguity in the general modern debate concerning the exact nature of human “rights” and “laws” and “justice,” but by no means is this ambiguity particular...

EDITORIAL: Laboratory sperm could help male infertility, but stay cautious

EDITORIAL: Laboratory sperm could help male infertility, but stay cautious

Editors February 26, 2016

Baby-making just moved from the bedroom to the laboratory. Chinese scientists have turned an embryonic stem cell into a primitive sperm, known as a spermatid, and used it to fertilize a mouse egg, the...

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