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COSMOPOLITAN
“How could it be legal for multiple Houston, Texas, emergency rooms to refuse Dinisha Ball a rape kit? The complicated, infuriating, little-known reasons why women can be denied emergency care after a sexual assault.”
— Why Did It Take This Woman 9 Hours and 3 ERs to Get A Rape Kit? (2016)
NEW YORKER
“In an already congested city, unrestricted competition has coaxed a whole lot of garbage trucks onto the streets—more than four thousand. Trucks crisscross each other, often several times a night, as they drive overlapping routes around town.”
— A Better Way to Take Out the Garbage? (2014)
REASON
“They use the same rhetorical appeals to self-ownership as their parents, and they raise interesting challenges to a movement that claims to champion choice. As Stacy Methvin, an activist with Texans for Vaccine Choice, a group that defends people's right not to vaccinate their children, puts it: "We, as humans, have the right to choose what to do with our bodies."
But what happens when a teenager wants to make a different choice?”
— Meet The Teens Who Want to Get Vaccinated Against Their Parents’ Wishes