Reproductive Control & Anti-Abortion

“Seven kids! Seven kids!” one woman exlaimed at a Rick Santorum rally in Louisiana on March 21, when organizers asked people to say what they liked most about the ultra-conservative Catholic, homeschooling presidential candidate.

Who gets warned, and about what, and by whom?

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice launches new campaign.

Justice as “creative process in individual circumstance.” Couldn’t agree more.

The Pope took a big first step that the rest of the leadership must follow.

On July 2, still glowing from the national media spotlight, Personhood USA issued a press release, “Personhood Leaders Suffer Violent Attacks From Pro-Abortion Terrorists Following Newsweek Feature,” with photos and description of shattered front-door glass, spray-painted coat hangers and “F— You” with a backward F across the front of their Denver-suburb house. The release said the Newsweek profile led to physical threats and the posting of the Masons’ home address in comments—and implicated The Daily Beast’s “notoriously liberal” readers and “pro-choice criminals” in the alleged vandalism.

All the rage in today’s media, home birth advocates, who run the spectrum from conservative Christians to liberal hippies, are working together to ensure that women are able to make informed decisions about their childbirth.

Will it be seen as emblematic of anti-abortion activism?

WWJD about abortion? Well, we sort of know.

For the past four years, the pro-choice “40 Days of Prayer” campaign has attempted to speak to the many religious women who seek and have abortions, because the movement will never be able to change the laws back to being pro-woman until women themselves are voting pro-choice.