Elaine Vilorio | Posted 05.24.2012
I thought it ridiculous that Catholic dioceses, schools and organizations sued Obama over the mandate requiring most employers to include free birth control as part of their health insurance coverage.
Religion News Service | David Gibson | Posted 05.23.2012
NEW YORK (RNS) The wave of lawsuits filed this week by more than 40 Catholic groups against the Obama administration's birth control mandate was meant...
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.16.2012
Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic institution in Ohio, has decided to drop its entire student health insurance plan as of the fall sem...
Posted 04.08.2012
U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, who was recently criticized for saying the national debate over birth control coverage is "not about women," issued a statement F...
Posted 04.04.2012
By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) The nation's Catholic bishops say the Obama administration's proposed revisions to a mandate that requ...
The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 03.27.2012
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) weighed into the controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's birth control mandate this weekend, dismissing the concern...
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.26.2012
While women still earn 77 cents for every dollar that men make in the United States, the gender wage gap has closed significantly over the past severa...
Posted 03.20.2012
By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) The Obama administration is offering to expand the number of faith-based groups that can be exempt fro...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.16.2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration signaled Friday it's willing to help insurance companies offset the cost of providing free birth control t...
Malika Saada Saar | Posted 05.15.2012
This Women's History Month marks the long-awaited emergence of a new post-Roe generation of women who are reframing the women's rights movement and discourse. March is, quite possibly, revealing the first stirrings of our own Women's Spring.
Cristina Page | Posted 05.14.2012
If the Bishops insist there's no firewall great enough to protect them from our contraceptive activities, then they also must admit there's no firewall great enough to protect us from their religious activities.
Nicole Neroulias | Posted 05.13.2012
As a religion reporter weary of oversimplified culture wars, and as someone who took birth control pills long before becoming sexually active, I feel disappointed by most of the reporting so far.
Juliet Jeske | Posted 05.12.2012
Rush Limbaugh might have finally gone too far. Attacking half of the adult population directly is not always the best game plan for winning over converts to his cause.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.09.2012
They don't wear funny hats any more, but there still sure are a lot of Puritans in this country these days. It wouldn't surprise me if you told me some red state is going to force every woman who gets birth control to wear a scarlet letter.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.10.2012
Pollster Celinda Lake responded on Friday to the rumblings of conservative commentators who claim the Obama administration planted Georgetown law stud...
Posted 03.08.2012
By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) The Obama administration is rejecting charges by the nation's top Catholic bishop that talks to modify...
Posted 03.07.2012
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) warned Tuesday that President Barack Obama's contraception mandate requiring most religiously-affiliated employers' he...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.07.2012
Saying it would reduce health insurance costs, the Tea Party-controlled New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday afternoon to re...
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.07.2012
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum had a stronger than expected showing on Super Tuesday, defeating frontrunner Mitt Romney in Tennessee,...
The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 03.05.2012
Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law school student at the heart of the debate over contraception, dismissed Rush Limbaugh's apology for callin...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.02.2012
President Obama on Friday placed a call to Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law school student at the heart of the debate over the contraceptio...
Posted 03.02.2012
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) pushed back Friday against Rush Limbaugh's inflammatory comments about Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke. "Th...
Eric Sapp | Posted 05.01.2012
By making contraception only about women's health, we're telling voters contraception decisions are not about parents, not about men, and not about families.
John Hawkins | Posted 04.30.2012
Look, I don't really give a sh*t what you do with your life, and I want government out of my bedroom as much as the next female of child-bearing age. ...
Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2012