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Reproductive Control & Anti-Abortion

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Religion Dispatches
When it comes to the Vatican’s crackdown on women religious, I believe it’s time to declare that for the purpose of this struggle: we are all nuns.
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Religion Dispatches
A power struggle between personhood lobby and the Republican leadership?
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Religion Dispatches
King’s fundamentally religious message of the requirements of justice have been confused, or perhaps deliberately distorted, by those who want to claim his support for their cause.
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Not everyone on the religious right believes that Lila Rose is acting out God’s will, let alone laying down her life. After all, Lila Rose lies in order to get the footage she seeks.
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I used to be angry, now I am apoplectic. I also used to be fraulein and now I am a frau. I used to be a mademoiselle and now I am madame, a señorita and now a señora. In other words, I am a mature woman whose human rights are vanishing before her very eyes. For a long time, I have become habituated to freedom, confusing myself, apparently, with a human being—or even a man. I don’t like it when Congress treats me like a girl by hacking away at abortion rights and talking about eliminating funds for family planning.
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The number of those who believe that rape survivors should have to carry a pregnancy to term is rising, though scrutiny of the position reveals it to be cruel and extremist.
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A new study shows that no matter how strongly a woman’s pastor may rail, a woman will make up her own mind when her pregnancy goes awry or is unplanned. So here’s the common ground: make sure she has the best medical care.
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The majority of abortion clinics in Kansas, given less than 2 weeks to comply with new toilet and closet size regulations, would have shut their doors but for a federal judge’s 11th-hour temporary decision to block the regulations. Was it really safety or a backdoor attempt to end abortion in the state?
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