Posts tagged "contraception"
Daily Links: Today’s Soap Box
What promised land? What medical ethics? What radical Muslims? What orphans? A quick guide to righteous media this week.
Daily Links: “Which Reminds Me” Edition
Hear Kathryn Joyce, The Revealer's former managing editor, talk about personhood bills, the Quiverfull movement, and the patriarchy movement here, on Tulsa public radio.
Nicole Neroulias writes at The Scoop that despite common reporting, same sex marriage is about a lot more than religion.
Yesterday the USCCB spelled out exactly...
Ads for Secular (Liberal) Catholics
Amy Levin: The New York Times committed a liberal faux pas last month. As if they'd forgotten just how controversial ads can be, they accepted $39,000 from the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) to run a full-page. . .well I’ll just say it, “anti-Catholic” advertisement. The ad features a political cartoon--with a grumpily...
A Truly Catholic View on Feminism
Priests for Life, a Catholic anti-choice group, and EWTN (Global Catholic Network) have teamed up to challenge women's daytime talk shows with a show of their own, "The Catholic View for Women." Tired of talk shows that don't represent traditional Catholic values? Vatican II ruin your faith? Think "Madonna of the Kitchen" might...
My Catholic Conscience
We've been here before. And no, it didn't work then either.
by Jon O'Brien
Like others, I am deeply concerned about recent moves in Congress that would restrict access to reproductive healthcare services, especially for poor women. The situation reminds me of other experiments where a few people with extreme views sought to pass policy that...
Believing in Contraception
An excerpt from today's announcement by a coalition of pro-choice and anti-abortion faith leaders, urging the Institute of Medicine panel to include contraception as a preventative service in health care reform, without a co-pay requirement, from Faith in Public Life.
Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shows that 99% of women...
The Unusual Plan B
A USA Today editorial makes the case that religion is the prime mover at the Food and Drug Administration, and is shocked (shocked…) to think of one group imposing its values upon another in “a nation founded on religious freedom and personal choice.” The outrage comes after the release of a report (PDF) from the...
