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Appeals Court Eviscerates Notre Dame’s Objections to Contraception Accommodation

By Patricia Miller

…et. He then proceeded to demolish Notre Dame’s claim that simply providing notification of its intent to claim the accommodation would in fact make it a “conduit” to the provision of contraceptives, which is the lay reading of Notre Dame’s insistence that it can’t participate in any degree of moral cooperation with contraception: [T]he scanty record contains no evidence to support the conduit theory. Although Notre Dame is the final arbiter of its…

Rick Perry, the Christocrat Favorite for President?

By Sarah Posner

…Don Wildmon of the American Family Association on hand, signed a parental notification bill and a gay marriage ban into law at the Fort Worth Calvary Christian Academy. Parsley graced the ceremonies with the statement that gay sex is “a veritable breeding ground of disease.” Perry has appeared at a conference hosted by Bill Gothard’s controversial Institute in Basic Life Principles. (They share a generous funder, James Leininger, a key funder of…

Five Signs Atwood’s “Handmaid’s Tale” Dystopia May Be Nigh

By Patricia Miller

…h imagination to see where this is going. Earlier in the year, an Oklahoma measure passed out of committee that would require women seeking an abortion to provide written consent from the fetus’ father, despite the fact that the Supreme Court has found spousal notification measures unconstitutional. For some, Gilead may seem a fantasy and the forces of the Christian right in retreat. But for others, Atwood’s dystopia is more a matter of degree and…

Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e order could encourage regulatory agencies to eventually do away with the notification requirement for such exemptions, it doesn’t change the fact that the groups that have already obtained exemptions still don’t have to provide preventive care for their employees. “At the end of the day, [Little Sisters of the Poor] didn’t have to provide contraception yesterday, and they don’t have to do today, and they won’t have to tomorrow,” Kreis explained….

Is Ken Starr ‘Pulling a Clinton’ on Jewish Studies Professor Marc Ellis?

By Kiera Feldman

…We understand, further, that on November 16, four months after the July 15 notification, the chair of the Faculty Dismissal Committee notified Professor Ellis that the administration was seeking his dismissal.” Ellis’ lawyer declined to discuss the nature of the complaint, but he did note that the female faculty member who filed it was “a former close friend of Marc’s.” According to Sanders, Ellis tried to intervene in a dispute between the woman…

Tony Perkins Will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…nd other adults that helped abortion-seekers under 18 skirt state parental notification requirements. For Perkins and many evangelical leaders, though, Donald Trump’s election has led to unprecedented levels of access and influence. “I’ve been to the White House how many more times in the first six months this year than I was during the entire Bush administration,” Perkins told reporters last August. “There’s not a Sunday that goes by that I don’t…

Bishops Reject Proposed Compromise with Obama on Contraception Coverage

By Sarah Posner

…eligious employers that refuse to cover contraceptives to “provide written notification to enrollees disclosing that fact and describing alternate ways for enrollees to access coverage for contraceptive services.” However, Rogers also noted that “these state laws are far from perfect. Further, we need more information about how they have worked in practice for all concerned.” Reproductive health advocates say in practice the laws are problematic….

Why I Miss Scalia: SCOTUS Punts on Religious Freedom

By Patricia Miller

…d he’s right. The courts are agreeing with their basic contention that any notification of the insurer by the plaintiffs that they don’t intend to provide contraception is in fact a violation of their religious liberty. It also ruled that the government can’t fine the Little Sisters and other petitioners for not complying with the mandate, which means in theory no matter what the outcome they can just refuse to play ball. While the court seems to…

Tony Perkins will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…nd other adults that helped abortion-seekers under 18 skirt state parental notification requirements. For Perkins and many evangelical leaders, though, Donald Trump’s election has led to unprecedented levels of access and influence. “I’ve been to the White House how many more times in the first six months this year than I was during the entire Bush administration,” Perkins told reporters last August. “There’s not a Sunday that goes by that I don’t…

What Kim Davis and the Little Sisters of the Poor Have in Common

By Patricia Miller

…ike the Little Sisters, refused any accommodation on the grounds that even notification of their intent to recuse themselves from coverage was what triggered such coverage and therefore still amounted to cooperation. This line of reasoning has been rejected by every single federal appeals court that has heard it to date, including the 10th Circuit, which rejected the Little Sisters’ claim in July, and again last week when it refused to rehear the…