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Reading Time: 2 minutes According to reports from the Telegraph (UK), counselors from the Alma Pregnancy Advisory Service — a “crisis pregnancy center” that urges women to keep their babies no matter what — were recorded telling clients that abortions cause breast cancer:
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last time we heard from Elizabeth Smart, she was starting to openly discuss the ways her purity culture upbringing made it difficult to escape from her rapist and kidnapper, despite multiple opportunities to do so.
Today, she is actively speaking out against her Mormon church’s teachings about women, sex, and virginity as it is linked to worth:
Reading Time: 2 minutes When Melanie Jones showed up for a doctor’s appointment to remove her dislodged IUD, being turned away was the last thing she expected. Jones was unaware that her health providers were Catholic and, according to their beliefs, could not help her without violating their consciences.
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the Religious Right’s biggest fears regarding the legalization of gay marriage was the possibility of pastors being forced to officiate against their conscience. A new poll by LifeWay Research, an evangelical research firm, throws cold water on that idea. Not only have pastors not been legally compelled to do so, they’ve barely been asked.
