The End of My Line: It’s Okay to Embrace The ‘Covid Baby Bust’
Last week, researchers at Wellesley College and the University of Maryland described how—in contrast to…
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From Engravings to Ultrasounds: The Politics of Imaging the Womb
The state of Texas, which was subject to a landmark Supreme Court ruling today,…
Read MoreReligious 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.
Read MoreRoss Douthat’s Missing Pregnant Women
Babies don’t grow on trees.
Read MoreWho Cares about what Augustine had to Say about Akin and Rape?
You do, internet.
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‘Let It Be Unto Me’: Akin, Rape, and the Early Church
A pair of historians discuss Republican rep. Todd Akin’s remarks on “legitimate rape”: the female body carries a huge burden of representation: her ability to protect the boundaries of her body, and to maintain her purity, reflects the church’s ability to do the same.
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Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon
I was both saddened and gratified by Mark Oppenheimer’s follow-up piece on the authors of Open Embrace, a Protestant couple’s jointly-written book on why they chose not to use artificial contraception, and how it helped their marriage. Turns out, though, it didn’t work out so well for them. And I was sad to hear it. Truly.
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“Pregnancy is Not a Disease”: Birth of an Anti-Contraception Rallying Cry
What makes the claim that “pregnancy is not a disease” compelling right now? Why does it have cultural traction? Where does it come from? I suggest that this idea is idiosyncratic and particular to our own day. Precisely because it’s such a timely notion, it’s predictable that this would be the anti-contraception rebuttal. At the same time, it’s a claim that’s full of tensions.
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Vatican Official Challenges Excommunication in Brazil
Archbishop says that in the case of the nine-year-old girl who was excommunicated for her life-saving abortion, the first concern of the Church should have been pastoral, not punitive.
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