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Reproductive Control & Anti-Abortion

Religion Dispatches
The excommunication of those involved in procuring an abortion for a sexually abused 9-year-old in Brazil does not extend to the abuser. What exactly are the Church’s priorities?
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How did a US Senator end up signing a letter condemning some of his Senate colleagues as bad Catholics?
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Catholic magazine in Spain has its own set of movie awards. “Juno” tops the list. Guess why.
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College Democrats deface crosses intended for anti-abortion protest and get nailed. Not nice to vandalize someone else’s property, but in political activism, kind of de rigueur.
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In a jolly pope-a-gram, Benedict welcomes the new president; the head US Cardinal is not so friendly in his welcome.
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While the decision for any individual to abort or not is a delicate and fraught one, the desire for state control women’s bodies comes down to good old fashioned misogyny.
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Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action circulates a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” depicting a doomsday scenario of Bible banning, a disbanded Boy Scouts, taxpayer-funded abortion, gay marriage from coast to coast, talk radio outlawed, God expunged from the public sphere, and, gulp, no guns.
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What happens when you search for contraception on the new Catholic-sanctioned search engine?
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Commentators maintain that the selection of Rick Warren was a shrewd political calculation. But what of the moral center?
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A recent RD article has sparked a conversation around the web…
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