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Winter Solstice Address 2023

As we gather to celebrate this winter solstice, a moment of seasonal significance, I’d like us all to take a moment to reflect on the beauty of our shared humanity. In the embrace of the longest night, we find unity in our diversity, recognizing the common thread that binds us all.

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HCCO Statement on Dobbs

Humanism holds to the inherent worth and dignity of all people and grounds our ethics in science while seeking to balance individual freedom and interdependent responsibility to others. The decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization violates all these principles as does the six-week abortion ban in Ohio. Dobbs empowers those systems that seek to treat women and other people who can get pregnant as second-class citizens, essentially reducing them to chattel status.

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