Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.
We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.
Cristina Page | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Obama's goal seems to be to appeal to a reasonable group that can talk to, rather than past, each other about abortion. If he's going to succeed, he has to confront those who perceive common ground as a threat.
Cristina Page | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Obama's still-to-be released common ground agenda in the abortion conflict is already having a profound and largely overlooked effect: it has exposed deep fault lines in the pro-life movement.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
I want to dare to pose the notion of making Yom Kippur a time for softer and longer reflections, about how to make things better, truer, safer for our insides and freer from inner terrors.
Jessica Arons | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
Americans do not want politics to drive coverage decisions. In other words, they object precisely to the type of food fight brewing on Capitol Hill right now.
Cristina Page | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
It may come as a shock to most pro-life Americans, but there's not one pro-life group in the United States that supports contraception. Rather, many lead campaigns against contraception.
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
Want to know how to win a culture war? Don't fight one.
Aspen Baker | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
A just and lasting peace between pro-choice and pro-life people is possible, but it lies in the history of those who have fought over this issue, not in the tired rhetoric of "common ground."
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
The assertion that unless Obama bows to the most conservative Catholic position he will lose widespread support is a scare tactic of the right.
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
If women have true choices, increased access to and support for adoption services will not dramatically affect the rate of abortions.
Aspen Baker | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
The desire for the emotional well-being of women doesn't require compromise of human rights or moral values and it doesn't require the sacrifice of dearly held beliefs.
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Waldman suggests we set up a Presidential commission to study the "sacredness of sex" and that the President start to talk about this as part of his platform. If I want the government to tell me how and what to think about sex, I'll buy a plane ticket to Afghanistan and live under the original Taliban.
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
What women need is both access to contraception that addresses their changing needs throughout their lifecycle and access to safe abortion services.
Rachel Laser | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
An overwhelmingly popular President and a rising chorus of Americans are imploring policymakers to replace the culture wars with culture discussions. In this new moment, engaging in partisan warfare seems simply passé.
Cristina Page | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
The brutal murder of Dr. Tiller threatens to poison the nascent dialogue Obama initiated.
Scott Swenson | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
Is it possible that in President Obama's election, Americans have a chance to heal the body politic from the divisiveness the abortion issue has caused for a generation or more?
Cristina Page | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
Alexia Kelley is a new style pro-lifer, one who believes a progressive agenda will produce pro-life results.
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
The appointment yesterday of Alexia Kelley as Director of Faith-based and Community Partnerships at the Department of Health and Human Services marks "a defeat for reason and logic."
Jim Wallis | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
Kemp was a fervent believer in "supply side economics," which I just as fervently oppose. But you do not have to agree with all of Jack Kemp's economic policies to be impressed and inspired with his life and leadership.
Ambassador Swanee Hunt and Adria D. Goodson | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
Prime Movers aren't simply good people doing great work. They're stirring masses of people to combat injustice, to become engaged in the civic decisions that affect their common good.
Charles Shaw | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media
At the risk of appearing to engage in a little schadenfreude, the truth of the matter is that I was not at all surprised at CE Media's demise. Yet I was quite saddened.
Cristina Page | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
In a never before attempted event, the Obama administration merged dozens of leaders from the pro-choice and pro-life movements onto one conference call line and, wisely, muted us.
Cristina Page | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
The Pregnant Women Support Act offers some proposals that both sides can endorse. And there may well be solutions for the problematic areas, assuming there really is good will.
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Governing this country is like playing Trivial Pursuit... if you don't know the answer to a question, just say "Elvis Presley," and you have more than a 50 percent chance of being right.
Jim Wallis | Posted 02.19.2009 | Living
The day after the inauguration, I will be joining religious leaders at the National Prayer Service for our new president. I will pray that this new era can change the image of religion in our country.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics