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Reproductive Control & Anti-Abortion

Religion Dispatches
ERs default to non-consensual pregnancy testing — and experts are sounding the alarm
In the film Belén , released earlier this year, a woman suffering from incapacitating stomach cramps goes to an emergency room only to learn that she’s pregnant. After she miscarries and doctors…
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Megyn Kelly’s comments about “liking” 15-year-old girls fit well within a “purity” worldview
Editor’s note: This post mentions child sexual assault and underage marriage. Please be advised. International media outlets and even an actual teenager slammed attorney and media personality Megyn…
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Trump Rankled Anti-Vaxx Crowd with Completely Different But Equally Unsupported Autism Link
In a rambling press conference last week, Donald Trump announced that commonly used over-the-counter painkiller Tylenol is “not good.” Specifically addressing pregnant women, Trump repeated “don’t…
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Shows Power of Christian Nationalism for Young Korean Activists
On September 13, 2025, echoes of “We are Charlie Kirk” could be heard across Seoul. From Jamsil to Gangnam, thousands of young Koreans commemorated American political activist Charlie Kirk’s death by…
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Political Research Associates
Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 5
In this second of a two-part series on analyzing Trump 2.0’s first 100 days in office, we share insights from PRA’s researchers about how MAGA weaponizes gender to entrench authoritarianism.
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Religion Dispatches
Focus on the Family founder Dr. James C. Dobson died last week, and there was much rejoicing —particularly among people whose families of origin subscribed to Dobson’s punitively patriarchal and…
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Religion Dispatches
The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists, according to a report released by the Senate Appropriations Committee last week. “The Committee”—wow, is…
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Religion Dispatches
Earlier this summer, investigative journalist T.J. Raphael released a seven-episode podcast, Liberty Lost , which investigates the history of Liberty University’s Godparent Home. In this secretive…
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Against all odds and the will of billionaires and establishment Democrats, Zohran Mamdani is the 2025 Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City. The New York Times (about which the less said the…
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Religion Dispatches
Last I checked, my uterus was in a jar in Schenectady. An ignoble end for a thing that was once burdened with glorious purpose, like an old prizewinning racehorse going off to the glue factory. It’s…
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