It's hard to imagine what goes through a campaign manager's head when his candidate says to him, "Harry, tomorrow, I'm going to tell the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Lutherans, the Disciples of Christ, the United Church of Christ, the Episcopalians, and the American Baptists that they aren't real Christians --...

The anti-abortion movement has been relentless in its determination to obstruct, block, prevent or make difficult any woman's attempt to obtain an abortion. By last April, over 900 measures were introduced in state houses to accomplish that task. But the movement has been strangely inactive in trying to...

During this past spring more than half of America's fifty state legislatures have ignored people's economic problems and instead become obsessed with passing legislation to defund, harass, and block the work of Planned Parenthood. In Biblical terms, what is being done to this 96 year old organization is "cursing." In...

Two wildly contrasting views of Planned Parenthood have surfaced in recent weeks. The first is that of Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, who sees Planned Parenthood as the personification of darkness and wants to cut off all government aid to this medical provider. The vehicle to do this is H.R....

Anti-abortion clergy are getting plenty of attention in the health care debate, while clergy insisting on access to the full range of reproductive medicine receive little notice. The imbalance is remarkable, given the long history of clergy support for the availability of contraception and abortion care.

As the family planning...