Reproductive Control & Anti-Abortion

Welcome to the first installment of our ongoing coverage of television’s latest contribution to the cultural intersection of science and religion, with bonus themes to include: the body, artificial intelligence, paganism, original sin, immigration, and race. Join Diane Winston, Anthea Butler, Salman Hameed, and Henry Jenkins every week as they delve into deep exegesis of Caprica.

Is Stupak being marginalized?

In the ever more dystopian world of Syfy Channel’s Caprica, teenage girls inhabit robot bodies, or live eternally without bodies at all, human bodies are marked by memories, and all the while there is blood flowing in the virtual streets.

Anti-abortion activists are screening an expertly-made documentary to black audiences across the country . Maafa 21 creates a highly selective, distorted history of the reproductive rights movement and frames abortion as a tool of eugenics and genocide.

Conservative Catholic group urges a tea party for Catholics, to oppose health care reform.

Catholics United says both House and Senate abortion restrictions “go too far,” but supports passing Senate version of bill.

Rather than provide health care to gay and lesbian spouses, Catholic Charities cuts off spousal benefits.

From anti-gay executive orders to claims that disabled children are God’s punishment, the religious right is very much alive.

The tea partiers disparage liberalism while anti-abortion activists claim to follow the civil rights movement.

Is the religious right stawlart making a play for pro-life Democrats?