The Right’s Position on the Birth Control Benefit is Unconstitutional. Is it...
With more than 100 plaintiffs seizing the religious mantle against the birth control benefit, suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has become quite the favorite pastime for those...
View ArticleWe Are All Savita Halappanavar: Catholic Hospital in Ireland Denies Woman...
See all our coverage of the tragic case of Savita Halappanavar here. Last month, a woman was admitted to a hospital in Galway, Ireland. She was 17 weeks pregnant with a wanted child. She was...
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Irish Law, “Conscience Clauses,” and Needless Death: Three Questions About...
See all our coverage of the tragic case of Savita Halappanavar here. Last night, we reported on the unnecessary and tragic death of Savita Halappanavar, who entered an Irish hospital undergoing what...
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Inter-American Court Approves Access to IVF in Costa Rica
Last month, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a final ruling in favor of the right to access in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Costa Rica. This is a win for women and Catholics and a blow...
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What’s in a Name Like Francis?
What’s in a name? I can tell you from experience that Francis (my own middle name) is one that’s tough to live up to. I took a lot of heat for it as a kid, because in rural South Georgia there weren’t...
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Contradictions and Conservatism Muddle Hopes for Change Under Jesuit Pope
In the social circles I run in, progressive, moderate, and former Catholics alike were taken aback yesterday by the news that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio will be pope. This is primarily because …...
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Plan B and Ella Are Not Abortifacients, But False Claims May Hold Up In Court
An amicus brief recently filed by Bart Stupak and Democrats for Life of America in the Newland v. Sebelius birth control benefit lawsuit contends that the Newlands, their for-profit corporation...
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In El Salvador, Yet Another Woman’s Life Subordinated to Non-Viable Fetus
See all our coverage of Beatriz here. Petition the El Salvadoran President and Supreme Court for Beatriz’s life here. Beatriz wants to live. A 22-year-old Salvadoran from a poor, rural community,...
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Human Rights Bodies Call on El Salvador to Provide Life-Saving Abortion
See all our coverage of Beatriz here. Petition the El Salvadoran President and Supreme Court for Beatriz’s life here. This week two international human rights bodies called on the government of El...
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Why Is El Salvador Letting a Woman Die?
See all our coverage of Beatriz here. Petition the El Salvadoran President and Supreme Court for Beatriz’s life here. This past month, the world has been watching a 22-year-old pregnant woman in El...
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Silencing Debate on Women’s Lives: It’s Happening in Wisconsin, Too, and the...
Redux – The personal is political Teaching children to understand and cope with bullies is essential, but bullying isn’t limited to elementary school. Bullying may not be physical or direct. It is...
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Pope Francis: Roman Catholic Church ‘Obsessed’ With Abortion, Contraception,...
Click here for all our coverage on Pope Francis’ recent comments on abortion, contraception, and homosexuality. In a historic interview published in part by the New York Times Thursday, Pope Francis...
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My Short-Lived Hope for a More Compassionate Catholic Church
Click here for all our coverage on Pope Francis’ recent comments on abortion, contraception, and homosexuality. Pope Francis’ recent interview, published in a number of Jesuit journals, has made...
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Church or State? The Vatican Has Too Much Influence at the UN
Click here for all our coverage on Pope Francis’ recent comments on abortion, contraception, and homosexuality. The pope’s groundbreaking comments last week have certainly knocked the wind out of the...
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Backing Off Sexual Oppression: How the Pope Can Make Us Believe Him
Click here for all our coverage on Pope Francis’ recent comments on abortion, contraception, and homosexuality. Ban abortion! Defund birth control! Stop same-sex marriage! At home and abroad, we hear...
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Pennsylvania Child Sexual Abuse Case Highlights Need for Statute of...
UPDATE, October 23, 4:10 p.m.: On Wednesday, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams announced that his office cannot move forward with the prosecution against Father Brennan given the recent...
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This Week in Sex: Testosterone, the Pope, and ‘Happy Endings’
This Week in Sex is a weekly summary of news and research related to sexual behavior, sexuality education, contraception, STIs, and more. Testosterone Treatment May Raise Cardiac Risk Testosterone...
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‘The People’s Pope’? If By People, You Don’t Mean Women
If the world needed any further evidence of the public-relations prowess of Pope Francis, it was granted by Time magazine on Wednesday, with a fawning profile and bestowal of its Person of the Year...
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Eric Cantor Announces Anti-Choice House Vote at March for Life
Despite the brutal cold that enveloped Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, the anti-choice activists who flooded the National Mall for the annual March for Life had a good day, one that began with a...
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Fetal Rosaries, Our Lady of Fatima, and the Spanish Inquisition: Welcome to...
In a windowless room in a Washington hotel, a religious summit of sorts is taking place. The protesters who make an annual pilgrimage to the nation’s capital for the March for Life have gathered to...
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