War Wounds
Miracles, in other words, may be possible, if we can unleash our scientists and doctors to move ahead with new techniques to heal the sick and damaged.
Miracles, in other words, may be possible, if we can unleash our scientists and doctors to move ahead with new techniques to heal the sick and damaged.
Chicago Breaking News | William Lee | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago
A Downstate women's clinic is challenging the state's law requiring doctors to notify the parents of teenage girls before an abortion is performed....
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.09.2009 | Chicago
In a political about-face, Mayor Daley said Friday he would sign legislation creating a protective zone around Chicago hospitals and clinics to keep p...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.09.2009 | Media
On last night's Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow took up the issue of a new law in Oklahoma that would seek to publicly shame and intimidate women who have ...
Carl Capotorto | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
The far right is daily being chased back into the margins, where it belongs. All that's left of their movement is a relative handful of confused, misguided know-nothings being manipulated and led by a cynical elite.
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
A new Oklahoma law requires physicians to disclose detailed information on women's abortions to the State's Department Of Health, which will then post...
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
There is no one "right" religious position on how health care should look; but I believe there are some fundamental moral and even biblical principles on which to evaluate any final legislative agreement.
Chicago Breaking News | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago City Council today voted 27-11 to pass an ordinance creating a so-called bubble zone requiring anti-abortion activists to keep their dista...
AP | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has refused to hear an anti-abortion's group request to force a state to issue "Choose Life" license plates. The...
The Huffington Post | Irene Vilar | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books
At what point when trying to get a book published and failing at it does one say let's shelve the damned thing? The evening I got a status report summ...
AP | Posted 10.04.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — An American cardinal on Sunday issued a plea for the rights of the unborn at a church service that included Vice President Joe Bide...
Laura Chapin | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver
It remains to be seen if this political kumbayah can survive a divisive Republican primary. The intolerant wing of the Republican party is notoriously intolerant of its own candidates.
National Post | Mary Vallis | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books
Fifty one rejection letters -- that is the number Irene Vilar received before she finally found someone to publish a tale so extreme it would surely b...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
"Basically, I do agree with the President that we need some kind of health care reform," says Anh in a Q and A. "Now, what kind of reform are we going to get? That is the question."
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 11.30.2009 | Chicago
Arguing that abortion protests have grown more "vicious" and "in-your-face" since the May 31 murder of a Wichita, Kan., doctor, a Chicago City Council...
Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
The protesters I spoke with in Wisconsin believe that "the morning-after pill" is the equivalent of murder. They even believe that the birth control pill is a form of murder.
Chip Berlet | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
There are tens of millions of conservative Christian evangelicals who read, watch, or hear crazy messages on a weekly basis. Stop laughing and start organizing.
AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
WARSAW, Poland — A Polish court on Wednesday ordered a Roman Catholic magazine to pay a fine and apologize to a woman for likening her to a kill...
Steven Waldman | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
In his "chairman's mark" on health care reform, Max Baucus had rejected the pure pro-choice position but still included provisions that pro-lifers viewed as supporting abortion.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.
Steven Waldman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
While some have chided me for caring too much about what the Bishops think, Bishops matter a great deal politically when it comes to the abortion-and-health care debate.
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
Wow, this is cause for cautious optimism: Buried in a new Bloomberg poll is evidence that solid majorities dismiss all the leading right wing health c...
Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
My amendment offers a common ground solution to a very challenging policy question -- namely how do we deal with abortion services in health reform legislation.
Chris Savage | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
Although anti-abortion groups decried the "politicization" of the killing of Dr. George Tiller, it appears that they are perfectly happy to use this tragedy to their own political advantage.
Robert Slayton | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living