Does HHS Understand the Difference Between Contraceptives and Abortion?
Michael Leavitt, secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, responded on his blog to concerns that a proposed HHS regulation would surreptitiously redefine abortion to include a...
View ArticleWill new HHS regulations send the US the way of Mexico City?
The New York Times provides a disturbing look at the state of legalized abortion in Mexico City. When Mexico City’s government made abortion legal last year, it also set out to make it available to any...
View ArticleMassachusetts Abortion Facility Buffer Zone Law Upheld
A Massachusetts federal district judge rejected last week a challenge to a state law requiring a 35-foot buffer zone around driveways and entrances of reproductive health care facilities. In a Boston...
View ArticleVirginia Pharmacy Says No to Birth Control
The latest drug store to stop selling contraceptives and filling birth control prescriptions–appropriately named Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy–has set up shop in Chantilly, Virginia, according to today’s...
View ArticleVictories for Reproductive Choice on November 4th
Anti-choice groups in the United States have increasingly turned to the ballot initiative process to attempt to restrict reproductive freedom on a state-by-state basis. This year, however, they failed...
View ArticleWho Came Up With the Idea of the Fetus as an Individual?
Crazy things keep coming out of Texas (where I once lived decades ago) – the Texas pledge of “one state under God,” public school Bible courses, Religious Viewpoints Anti-discrimination Act and now,...
View ArticleSins of the parents
Yesterday the Colorado state legislature voted on a bill that would require the health care providers of pregnant women to give them HIV tests (although the women may opt out). The reasons are pretty...
View ArticleThe Pope in Africa
The Pope’s visit to Africa has already produced some interesting quotes for discussion, but in reading the Boston Globe today, I found other disturbing passages: In his homily, Benedict expressed...
View ArticleAfghan Women Protest Marital Rape Law
There are some things I don’t like about American culture, but stories like this one in the Times Online really make me glad to live here: A group of Afghan women who braved an enraged mob yesterday to...
View ArticleA nation without legalized abortion
In the aftermath of the tragic assassination of Dr. George Tiller, we need to remember what is at stake in the debate over abortion. Indeed, we don’t need to use our imaginations to envision what our...
View ArticleHow Much does Religion Affect Moral Judgment
(Crossposted at Friendly Atheist) Is religion the primary source of people’s moral judgments? It looks like a nation’s culture plays a larger role than religion itself. David Hume had an interesting...
View ArticleRandall Terry tries for a comeback
I’m sure you’ve heard of Randall Terry, who for years was the face of the anti-choice movement in the United States. Even though he hasn’t been the head of Operation Rescue, an organization that he...
View ArticleOperation In-Need-Of-A-Rescue
I hope that this doesn’t fall under the category of too good to be true (hat tip to Feministing): Operation Rescue, one of the nation’s highest-profile groups in the anti-abortion movement, has told...
View ArticleThe End of Abortion in Mississippi: Who Pays?
I was shocked the first time I saw a pregnant teenager. I was in the ninth grade, and a girl I had known for three years came back from summer vacation with a big, hard belly. She walked the halls...
View ArticleThe Church’s Real Contraception Agenda
To hear the Catholic bishops talk, you’d think today’s hot-button issue of contraceptive coverage in healthcare plans is one of “religious liberty,” where the government is denying Catholics the...
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