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Reproductive Control & Anti-Abortion

Religion Dispatches
Only when both sides of the abortion debate express their views will we find common ground. Restrained discourse helps nobody.
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Religion Dispatches
The Vatican has thus far given the thumbs down on the Obama admin’s first couple of candidates for ambassador. One wonders whether the U.S. routinely allows countries to decide who our ambassador should be?
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Religion Dispatches
Could there be a return to racist-era “safe states”?
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Religion Dispatches
This week will mark the anniversaries of two very important phenomena: today commemorates the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
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Religion Dispatches
While the political focus of evangelicals shifts, mum is still the word on abortion.
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Religion Dispatches
The 10 remaining picks did little to rectify the anti-reform, anti-woman, anti-gay tilt of Obama’s Faith-Based Advisory Council. Not to mention the conspicuous absence of a single academic theologian.
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Religion Dispatches
On Friday White House officials launched a campaign to appease those on all sides of the abortion issue. Do they realize it’s nearly as thorny as Israel/Palestine?
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Public Eye
The Right is using new media tactics to challenge Planned Parenthood, paying lip service to progressive values but restricting reproductive rights.
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Religion Dispatches
In a videotaped interview, Archbishop Raymond Burke calls Obama an “agent of death.” But his big mistake was to criticize his fellow bishops in public.
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Religion Dispatches
Archbishop says that in the case of the nine-year-old girl who was excommunicated for her life-saving abortion, the first concern of the Church should have been pastoral, not punitive.
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