https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to dobbs v. jackson en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/05/alabamas-ivf-ruling-reveals-deep-ties-increasingly-influential-christian-right-movement In the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling that sent shockwaves through the country, the word “God” appears 41 times—and that’s no coincidence. Embryos, according to Alabama’s highest court, are in fact “extrauterine children”—a phrase so dystopian it would make Margaret… Tue, 05 Mar 2024 05:29:17 EST Annika Brockschmidt e4a60f3b-6173-4b0b-ab29-7719222b2f20 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/12/24/2023-review-year-one-without-roe-gop-code-red-scotus-gone-wild-and-ray-hope As the New Year approaches and gift guides (and pleas for support) litter our inboxes, let’s take some time to reflect upon 2023. As I’ve previously stated , this is rarely a joyous occasion in my line of work, but… Sun, 24 Dec 2023 10:02:43 EST Annika Brockschmidt b379a8b7-7e53-4222-afea-e932631f30ad https://religiondispatches.org/2023/06/05/blaming-young-people-fall-roe-holding-firefighters-accountable-arson “Sometimes I’m irrationally mad at younger women,” wrote the acclaimed television critic and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Emily Nussbaum last week in a now deleted-tweet. The reason for the 57-year-old critic’s anger: “I think they didn’t take abortion rights seriously… Mon, 05 Jun 2023 02:30:28 EDT Gillian Frank 69812a5b-9ba0-477b-ae8d-a20bc229e2c7 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/04/28/set-privilege-christianity-public-schools-texas-sends-message-about-who-welcome-and-who The Texas Legislature is set to enact three laws to redefine the rules concerning religion in public schools. One will allow students and teachers to engage in Bible reading during the school day; a second will require the posting of… Fri, 28 Apr 2023 04:48:03 EDT Steven K. Green f6261615-c190-40bc-bee4-34fcc7c2d732 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/02/15/still-left-behind-what-endurance-left-behind-cinematic-universe-can-tell-us-about The End keeps on not coming, but the delay has produced yet another opportunity for a Left Behind film. Directed by and starring Kevin Sorbo, Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist was released just last month in select theaters to… Wed, 15 Feb 2023 06:32:17 EST Christopher Douglas 7cd617b3-1417-45ba-9448-5987336f4909 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/01/17/key-understanding-federalist-society-isnt-originalism-its-800-year-old-tradition In the amicus brief he submitted to the Supreme Court on behalf of the state of Mississippi in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case that overturned Roe v. Wade , John Eastman of the Claremont Institute anchored a “foundational… Tue, 17 Jan 2023 05:15:13 EST Peter Schwartz 1a5a6f37-1de4-45e6-a3bc-fc71f49990de https://religiondispatches.org/2022/12/27/broken-courts-big-lies-and-genocide-rehearsal-review-2022-and-what-we-can-expect-2023 As 2022 draws to a close, amongst the last-minute hustle before the New Year, there’s a moment for reflection. In my line of work this isn’t necessarily a joyful task, but it is an essential one—especially for what it can… Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:59:50 EST Annika Brockschmidt 90d12d30-1152-456a-b75c-712afee390fb https://religiondispatches.org/2022/12/16/what-protests-and-executions-iran-can-tell-us-about-america-and-fall-roe-v-wade The separation of religion and government is a basic human right. The protests in Iran and the theocratic regime’s lethal attempts to suffocate the spark of human freedom are a case study proving this truism. But that regime’s obsessive imposition… Fri, 16 Dec 2022 02:43:52 EST Andrew L. Seidel 1fac4284-04f8-4052-882c-05facba50153 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/11/07/quiet-part-very-much-out-loud-conservative-publication-calls-embrace-totalitarianism White Christian nationalism has been shown by researchers to be strongly connected to authoritarianism and anti-democratic sentiment. “White Christian nationalism is not just in the people who stormed the Capitol but it’s powerfully associated and a leading predictor of whether… Mon, 07 Nov 2022 04:28:33 EST Annika Brockschmidt 1d743ac9-71c0-4a5b-b758-26a659db064f https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/27/2022-american-values-survey-offers-some-good-news-and-some-bad As usual, PRRI’s 2022 American Values Survey, released this morning, is chock full of interesting data points about the state of the nation and how it sees itself, from views on abortion and LGBTQ rights to QAnon and immigration… Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:01:04 EDT Daniel Schultz 2661041b-5b63-4da2-9f2b-088d171e44ac https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/20/after-roe-3-troubling-trends-compassionate-anti-abortion-crowd In the early ’90s, my Catholic grade school hosted a guest speaker, a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature. After giving our eighth-grade class a basic civics lesson, he opened the floor to Q&A. And, in the excruciating hour that… Tue, 20 Sep 2022 05:38:23 EDT Robert Repino 1e148793-3fdb-4e9b-943e-41e62a946c22 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/16/desantis-no-show-rights-secret-sauce-and-final-thoughts-pray-vote-stand This is the final post of RD and PRA’s special coverage of the Pray Vote Stand Summit. All posts can be found here. - eds 9/16/2022 Afternoon The election reform panel is a study in fear mongering and misinformation. Jason… Fri, 16 Sep 2022 04:58:40 EDT PRA Staff 547c4892-ab34-4340-aef1-45189accdf35 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/15/pray-vote-stand-2022-kicks-some-head-scratchers-predictable-topics The following kicks off RD and PRA’s special coverage of the Pray Vote Stand Summit. All subsequent posts can be found here. - eds 9/14/2022 Evening The Family Research Council’s Pray Vote Stand Summit starts with a flourish as a… Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:19:04 EDT PRA Staff ec29157a-389f-486c-b96e-61597cfe461b https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/02/what-turn-century-anti-abortion-and-contraception-crusader-reveals-about-gop-efforts-ban While his name may not be familiar to most Americans, for 40 years, between 1873 and 1915, the mutton chopped and cherubic faced Anthony Comstock was one of the more powerful and feared people in American society. The most famous… Tue, 02 Aug 2022 01:10:19 EDT Steven K. Green 2db100a8-06a0-4e86-b620-4028e320170a https://religiondispatches.org/2022/07/18/caught-fever-dream-originalism-can-scotus-majority-learn-lessons-early-america-its-too The separation of church and state feels like bedrock in America. It is, after all, part of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment—that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”—which has traditionally been interpreted to mean… Mon, 18 Jul 2022 08:43:48 EDT J.L. Tomlin, Thomas Lecaque b0bd3de6-b907-4006-a16b-8f665e5ff5c2 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/30/progressive-christians-dont-look-bible-abortion-rights-arguments-womens-autonomy-not In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade , many Christians have gone to their Bibles. Some in joy as they celebrate. Some for comfort as they worry about what comes next. Others for ammunition as… Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:04:56 EDT Rhiannon Graybill, Jill Hicks-Keeton 4eac21e8-1bbb-4883-be94-6cea47aadc64 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/29/problems-pregnant-people-increase-catholic-bishops-claim-theyre-heroes-ending-abortion Now that Roe and Casey have been overturned, the roles of the institutional Roman Catholic Church and of most of the Catholic Supreme Court justices are transparent. Their ‘victory’ was the fruit of long, persistent work that many Catholics, myself… Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:21:34 EDT Mary Hunt df21a91b-7295-4c4a-a01f-bb78f46c7970 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/24/citing-jewish-law-florida-synagogue-challenges-abortion-ban-heres-problem-religious Days before the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey , a Florida synagogue filed a lawsuit challenging Florida’s abortion ban on the grounds that it violates Jews’ religious freedom. Halakhah, or Jewish law, the… Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:34:36 EDT Rebecca Epstein-Levi 411e5ad3-73b6-47f9-a11d-e464586d55ac https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/06/transphobic-and-anti-abortion-policies-are-direct-threat-my-religious-freedom The Public Religion Research Institute recently highlighted an important statistic: nearly all Unitarian Universalists ( 97 percent ) support nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQIA+ people. It’s a similar story for reproductive rights—according to the Pew Research Center , 90 percent of… Mon, 06 Jun 2022 05:31:23 EDT Susan Frederick-Gray 6e682810-a437-42fb-bad6-af6caa3f67e7 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/19/we-believe-god-has-special-plan-every-single-life-oklahomas-strict-punitive-and-total Anyone who grew up in the Christian Right could have told you that Roe v. Wade was never “settled law,” despite what the pundits said. We conservative evangelicals were always sincerely gunning for Roe . I was born on July… Thu, 19 May 2022 05:23:18 EDT Chrissy Stroop 9d779d15-4cd9-42e8-80b4-b9f7973d725e https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/13/pregnant-women-or-people-who-can-get-pregnant-how-do-we-balance-recognition-anti Over the same period in which advocates of reproductive justice have been fighting a rearguard effort to preserve Americans’ constitutional right to abortion care, LGBTQ advocates have fought to advance the use of more gender-inclusive language in a variety of… Fri, 13 May 2022 04:27:53 EDT Chrissy Stroop a4e54a49-a8f7-44f3-9a32-d62df31b6e6d https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/11/dont-buy-alitos-assurances-heres-what-happens-next-after-roe-falls The leaked first draft of Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson has sent shockwaves throughout the American psyche. This is a stunning reversal of women’s rights that have been in place for half a century . It… Wed, 11 May 2022 03:34:55 EDT Brynn Tannehill 8f88195d-cde9-4218-bc3a-552870401275 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/10/end-roe-comes-courtesy-catholic-church-dorothy-day-abortion-fund-st-vincent-de-paul No matter how Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is decided finally, restrictions unto bans on abortions will be courtesy of the institutional Roman Catholic Church. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, their Pro-Life Activities Committee, and colleagues will… Tue, 10 May 2022 03:41:31 EDT Mary Hunt 1c7ff8e2-da71-42af-a292-a2f7ca74b98a https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/09/end-roe-may-have-something-important-tell-us-about-decline-mainline-protestant-churches As we gnaw on the paws of our grief and foreboding regarding the Supreme Court and Roe , RD’s editor-in-chief reminded me of the beautiful Tom Davis tribute to the Rev. Howard Moody that this magazine published following Mr. Moody’s… Mon, 09 May 2022 03:47:28 EDT Peter Laarman 09fe7c66-f905-4661-86b6-4dc0867cc87b https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/06/originalism-neednt-always-result-abortion-bans-just-ask-al-qaida When it comes to Roe v. Wade , some pro-choice voices have a jihadism problem. Posting about “Shariʿa” won’t help them. Critiquing originalism might. A subset of those infuriated by the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would… Fri, 06 May 2022 04:27:14 EDT Nathan French 2bc57955-1063-4303-aec2-3dd9e58ffe8c