At the dawning of the 21st, Catholicism is still holding out on condoning birth control. Perhaps that is about to change.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
New data confirms that abortions tend to happen more often in big, blue states, but also that abortion is quite common in red states where anti-choice is strongest.
Aspen Baker | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
We must recognize that we are a nation deep in conflict, and instead of trying to win with politics, we must work towards building peace. We need to change the conversation about abortion.
AP | GEOFF MULVIHILL | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — A New Jersey high school student claims in a federal lawsuit that school administrators violated her First Amendment free-s...
Mother Jones | Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
When she was running for governor of Alaska in 2006, Sarah Palin reportedly said that even if her then-14-year-old daughter were raped, she would "cho...
Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
Dear Bishops: In our struggle to get health care for all, you saw an opportunity to make sure that American women can't afford abortions, a way to be the deciders for all of us.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
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.
Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a comprehensive health care plan for the United States -- a plan that will cover 96% of Americans. That is a victory for women.
Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living
Belmont Abbey College argued in court that it was a secular institution in order to receive state funds, but then removed birth control from its employee health care plan. Their reason? The Catholic Church.
FiveThirtyEight | Nate Silver | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
When I first learned that the Stupak Amendment, which would prevent abortion from being covered under health care plans included in the health care in...
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.
Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The substitution of "baby" for "fetus" in the debate over born-alive bills is just another way for opponents of abortion to derail the abortion debate by blurring the lines between abortion and infanticide.
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Just hours after a state board voted Wednesday to allow the enforcement of a long-debated Illinois law requiring a teenage girl's pare...
Politics Daily | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
EBay has removed an auction posted by supporters of Scott Roeder, the man charged with the May murder of abortionist George Tiller. The listing featur...
Nancy Northup | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media
The show's recent character, Dr. Benning, provides abortions later in pregnancy, like Dr. Tiller, and was shot in his church after surviving a prior shooting, like Dr. Tiller. There the similarities end.
AP | SEAN MURPHY | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics
OKLAHOMA CITY — Abortion rights supporters have challenged two new Oklahoma laws that would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws i...
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.
Women's eNews | Susan Elan | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Enforcement of an Oklahoma law that will publicize an unprecedented amount of personal information about women who undergo abortions has been delayed ...
Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
Every woman has different life circumstances. Every pregnancy produces different challenges. Who is more able to assess the moral validity of every woman's abortion? I certainly don't think it's the Archbishop.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
McClatchy | David Lightman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pledged Sunday that President Barack Obama will support barring public funding for...
Jonathan Merritt | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics