Religious Leaders: Time to End Silence on Reproductive Justice
A reverend calls for other religious leaders to speak up and urge President Obama to stand for the reproductive rights of women.
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Bishops Seek Expanded Definition of “Federal Funding” to Curtail Abortion
New legislation includes private coverage.
Read MoreAmerican Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy
Why aren’t American anti-choice groups up in arms?
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The Abortion Debate, Texas Style
This Monday the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services (HHS) of the Texas Legislature heard more than 13 hours of testimony regarding SB1 (Senate Bill 1), a bill designed to “regulat[e]… abortion procedures, providers, and facilities.”
Wendy Davis in Texas: Just Like a Prayer
People who want to stop abortion are quick to publicly ask God’s aid in ending a practice they think is murder. It’s easy to find examples of their public prayers. But people who believe women ought to be in charge of when they bring life into the world are less apt to pray their cause publicly. Many of those people are acting out of religious faith that is every bit as deeply held.
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The Racial Politics of Atheism
The absence of historical and sociological context for atheist politics, and its disconnection from social justice activism, will keep it in the lily-white one-percent column.
Read MoreTo All Abortion Purists:
The ‘morning after’ Gosnell: Can we agree on some of the basics?
Read MoreConservative Christian Anti-Abortion Hero is Neither Christian nor Anti-Abortion
But he does seem to be a hero.
Read MoreHow Evangelical Adoption Went Viral
A discussion of Kathryn Joyce’s new book.
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Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight over Abortion
Four years later, the church doesn’t speak to the media about the murder. “They put that in the past,” an administrator told me, handing back my card. But they may be the only ones who can say that in Wichita, which for 20 years has been the epicenter of America’s fight over abortion.
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