COLUMBIA — Lana Jacobs, a prominent social services worker and peace activist, has left the local St. Francis Catholic Worker Community following questions about tens of thousands of dollars in missing donations from the organization she co-founded, according to members of the charity.
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As a political activist, she protested in the form of civil disobedience by digging symbolic graves in front of MU’s ROTC building and crossing a police line to bring a bottle of water to Terry Schiavo, a dying woman who was taken off life support in Florida.
Columbia police investigating local charity worker
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Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, a pill that has largely faded from the rancorous public debate over abortion has slowly and quietly begun to transform the experience of ending a pregnancy in the United States. The French abortion pill RU-486, on the market since 2000, has become an increasingly common alternative, making abortion less clinical and more private. At a time when the overall number of abortions has been steadily declining, RU-486-induced abortions have been rising by 22 percent a year and now account for 14 percent of the total -- and more than one in five early abortions performed by the ninth week of pregnancy. .......
As Abortion Rate Drops, Use of RU-486 Is on Rise
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