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Obama Contraception

Pandora's Pillbox: Obamacare as Proxy Culture War

J.D. Kleinke | Posted 03.29.2013 | Politics
J.D. Kleinke

Our health care system is the dumping ground for all of our worst, unresolved arguments as a society. It is a long, messy list, and runs from the ovary to the grave.

State's Anti-Obamacare Law Smacked Down

AP | DAVID A. LIEB | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A federal judge has struck down a Missouri law exempting moral objectors from mandatory birth control coverage because it confl...

Jaweed Kaleem

Obama Taps Baptist Lawyer To Lead Faith-Based Office

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 03.13.2013 | Religion

The White House on Wednesday appointed Melissa Rogers, a Baptist lawyer whose career has specialized in religion's role in public life and in the gove...

2013: The Year Women Abolish God

Mark Morford | Posted 04.15.2013 | Politics
Mark Morford

Could this be the grand finale? The glorious death knell for the ugliest portions of organized religion and its relentless, impressive beat-down of the stubborn female species for lo these past 2,013 years? Can we at least hope?

Jesuit University Backtracks On Birth Control

Inside Higher Ed | Posted 11.05.2012 | College

When the protests over the new federal requirement that health insurance cover birth control for all female employees were at their peak in April, Xav...

Amanda Terkel

Paul Ryan To Social Conservatives: 'Religious Freedom' At Risk If Obama Is Reelected

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.05.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) used some of the precious remaining hours of the 2012 campaign to reach out to social conservative voters in a t...

Group Tries To Block Controversial Obamacare Provision

AP | TIM TALLEY | Posted 01.01.2013 | Politics

OKLAHOMA CITY — An arts and craft supply company owned by a Christian family asked a judge Thursday to block a portion of the new federal health...

University President Doesn't Want To Pay For Workers' Birth Control Because 'Life Begins At Conception'

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 10.10.2012 | Business

Two universities are alleging that it's unconstitutional for Obamacare to require employers to cover contraception for workers. East Texas Baptist...

War on Women?

Mary L. G. Theroux | Posted 10.13.2012 | Politics
Mary L. G. Theroux

Shouldn't we be working to build a solution for those who don't have access to care, rather than an unsustainable one that subsidizes those of us fully able to pay for our own contraceptive needs?

Obama Defends Freedom of Religion: Be Not Afraid of Mitt Romney

George Lakoff | Posted 10.10.2012 | Politics
George Lakoff

Do you believe in freedom of religion? President Obama does, and he is defending Americans' freedom of religion against Mitt Romney and Fox News in the administration of his health care bill.

Concerned Women For America Mocks Sandra Fluke

The Huffington Post | Laura Bassett | Posted 08.08.2012 | Politics

Concerned Women for America fired a few insults on Wednesday at women's health advocate Sandra Fluke, who is slated to introduce President Obama at a ...

Cardinal Suing Obama Administration Invites President To Dinner

AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 10.07.2012 | Religion

NEW YORK — New York Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan is suing the Obama administration, but he's inviting President Barack Obama to dinner ...

Obama Campaign Ad Knocks Romney Over Women's Health: "This Isn't The 1950s'

The Huffington Post | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 08.04.2012 | Politics

President Barack Obama's reelection campaign slammed Mitt Romney over women's health issues in a new ad released Saturday. The ad, titled "Importan...

New Guttmacher Video: "Benefits of Contraceptive Use in the United States"

Sharon L. Camp | Posted 08.01.2012 | Politics
Sharon L. Camp

Contraception is basic preventive health care for women -- a simple truth that is too often lost in our national political discourse.

Why Republicans Punishing a Rep for Saying "Vagina" Matters

Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.17.2012 | Politics
Mitchell Bard

It makes one wonder: Would the Michigan Republican leadership have banned a male conservative representative for using the term "vagina" in the debate? Somehow I doubt it.

John Celock

Opponents Claim State Could Legalize Child Abuse

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 06.12.2012 | Politics

North Dakota residents are voting Tuesday on a controversial religious freedom referendum that opponents say could legalize child abuse, domestic viol...

Should Women Be Taxed For Taking The Pill?

The Huffington Post | Emily Cohn | Posted 06.04.2012 | Home

While President Obama wants to grant women access to free birth control, this guy thinks women ought to pay more for access to contraception -- $1,50...

Does Religious Liberty Equal Freedom to Discriminate?

Lawrence M. Krauss | Posted 07.29.2012 | Science
Lawrence M. Krauss

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

The War on Sex for Pleasure

Beth Burkstrand-Reid | Posted 07.16.2012 | Politics
Beth Burkstrand-Reid

Reproductive health services are important because the act of sex is important. But it is very unlikely that we will soon see elected officials admit en masse that they like having sex with their spouses and (by God!) birth control should be therefore be accessible for that very reason.

The Illusion of Religious Choice

Joseph Rauch | Posted 06.11.2012 | College
Joseph Rauch

I do not think raising a child without religious values bears more merit than raising a child with religious values, but the development is certainly worth looking into.

Pittsburgh Priests To Bishop: Listen To Laity On Contraception

Posted 04.11.2012 | Religion

By Joshua J. McElwee National Catholic Reporter Several priests of the Pittsburgh diocese have met with Bishop David Zubik -- the prelate who said...

Catholic Bishops Support Republicans

Fred Rotondaro | Posted 06.10.2012 | Religion
Fred Rotondaro

The bishops would of course never tell their parishioners to vote Republican, but they left little to the imagination. Priests would preach at mass about the necessity of voting only for pro-life candidates.

Bishops Say Obama Compromise Is 'Unconstitutional'

Posted 04.04.2012 | Religion

By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) The nation's Catholic bishops say the Obama administration's proposed revisions to a mandate that requ...

Tea Party Senator's Advice To Women Who Can't Afford Birth Control

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 03.27.2012 | Politics

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) weighed into the controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's birth control mandate this weekend, dismissing the concern...

Laura Bassett

Birth Control Access Boosts Women's Pay: Study

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.26.2012 | Women

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...