The following is a joint message from Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, and Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

The overwhelming majority, 98 percent, of sexually active Catholic women use a form of modern contraception.

Two-thirds of Catholics, 65 percent, believe that clinics and hospitals that...

Recent legislation chipping away at reproductive options in Russia has uncomfortable similarities to struggles in legislatures around the United States. Russian women have been able to rely on legal abortion for decades. But in July, President Dmitri Medvedev signed into law measures that require advertisements for...

Last week the Institute of Medicine (IOM) announced its recommendation that comprehensive contraceptive methods be included as a preventive benefit. This means that, if the federal government agrees with the proposal, these services will be provided at no extra cost to women. It was a victory for all women, but...

When Barack Obama was elected president, reproductive rights advocates hoped that we had found a champion. We looked forward to working with an administration that had promised a solid commitment to women's rights, including a dedication to improved access to contraception and abortion services. This promise helped get Obama elected...

Recent research, released in February by Catholics for Choice and in April by the Guttmacher Institute, shows what everybody already knows to be true: Catholics use methods of contraception that are banned by the church hierarchy.

The findings, from the latest figures released by the...

Like others, I am deeply concerned about recent moves in Congress that would restrict access to reproductive healthcare services, especially for poor women. The situation reminds me of other experiments where a few people with extreme views sought to pass policy that impacted a significantly wider group of people --...

Dear Secretary Clough,

We at Catholics for Choice are very disappointed in your decision to remove David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly" from the "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" exhibition. Your decision amounted to censorship, plain and simple.

The National Portrait Gallery plays...

As the election nears, many news outlets are repeating misinformation about what Catholics believe and what they can and should do when it comes to voting.

Conservative groups have targeted a largely Catholic group of antichoice Democrats who voted in favor of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, falsely...

The somewhat inexplicable furor over whether to light the Empire State Building up in blue and white lights on August 26 has rumbled on for months. It started when the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, submitted an application to have the Empire State Building lit up in blue...

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops was severely embarrassed at the end of the recent debate over health care reform. After seeming to be front and center as the negotiations closed, the bishops were outmaneuvered by a coalition of religious sisters who had the temerity to decide that flawed health...

Fifty years ago this week, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the contraceptive pill. The man most prominently associated with the development and introduction of the pill, John Rock, was an Irish Catholic doctor from Boston. Dr. Rock didn't set out to make waves with the Vatican; in fact,...

Jim Wallis' protracted lecture on how abortion has become a central part of the health care reform debate proves how truth is, indeed, one of the first casualties of war--even a culture war. Here, I examine just a few of his statements to show how his version of events...

Should We Cover Some People, Some Parts of People, or All Parts of Everybody?

The United States is embroiled in a debate over healthcare. Ideological divides over morality and money are front and center, and threatening to derail any real progress on what has become a major crisis.

The health care system in the United States is broken. Forty-seven million people are uninsured and 30 million more are under-insured. With the current state of the economy, men and women around the country are struggling to make ends meet. They are making the tough decisions between putting food on...

Why the "Preventing Unintended Pregnancies, Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act" Makes Such Good Sense

We can all see the enormous impact the economic crisis is having on American families. Factories have closed. Those who rely on second and third jobs are finding them harder to come...

Earlier this week, in his social encyclical Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict claimed that the church does not "interfere in any way in the politics of States." These words are especially pertinent for today's meeting between President Obama and the pope.

While both men are world leaders, the pope and...

On Sunday, President Obama will become the sixth US president to give the commencement address at Notre Dame and the ninth to be awarded an honorary degree. When President Obama was invited by the University of Notre Dame to deliver the 2009 commencement address and receive an honorary law degree...