Reproductive Control & Anti-Abortion

A recent RD article has sparked a conversation around the web…

Though a self-proclaimed feminist, Sarah Palin bridges the gap between different factions on the Right.

Chip Berlet and Frederick Clarkson analyze the results of the 2008 election through the lens of religious and party affiliation, showing the enduring power of the Christian Right.

The Religious Right attacks Obama’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services as a “pro-life nightmare.”

… Driving, of course.

Many US Catholics defied bishops and voted for Obama, but this has only invigorated the Catholic Right.

Calgary’s Catholic School trustees vote to leave girls at risk for HPV; if we don’t teach them, they’ll be chaste, right?

How can largely Catholic countries manage to pass legislation despite the cries of the institutional Church while Catholic-minority nations like the US often hew close to the Church line?

What’s notable here isn’t just the broadness of the definition of abortion and other ”objectionable activities,” but the corresponding broadness of the definition of health care entities that would be covered under the new proposal…

American Christians, having located the ultimate bogeyman, are claiming martyrdom by proxy…