Reading Time: 5 minutes On June 26, two days after the ruling by the US Supreme Court on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that effectively overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a purposefully anonymous group member of the I’m a Choir Director Facebook page, posted the following: Is anyone else having a really hard time […]
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Stunning Kansas vote shows just how badly the Right has overplayed its hand
Reading Time: 2 minutes An earthquake at the ballot box in reliably-red Kansas has flipped the chessboard for the midterm elections and reproductive rights.
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New report: Roberts lobbied Kavanaugh to save Roe before leak of draft opinion
Reading Time: 2 minutes Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts provoked furor from conservatives a decade ago when he voted to save the Affordable Care Act. Voting to save former President Obama’s signature legislation from a court challenge led Republicans to view the justice as an unreliable conservative vote on the court. Now, a report claims that Roberts lobbied […]
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Kentucky judge slams ‘theocratic’ laws in ruling protecting abortion rights
Reading Time: 3 minutes On Friday morning, Jefferson Circuit Judge Mitch Perry ruled that abortion procedures could continue in the state of Kentucky, issuing an injunction requested by two women’s health clinics in Louisville, partly because he didn’t buy the “theocratic” religious argument that life begins at conception. Attorney General Daniel Cameron wants to use the overturning of Roe […]
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The anti-abortion SLED argument is no Rosebud
Reading Time: 4 minutes A popular apologist pushes back against the charge that his pro-life argument is built on religion. Is he correct? And does his pro-life argument make sense?
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Roe didn’t fall due to answered prayers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Those who support the demise of Roe’s legal protection for abortion said the decision was the effect of Christian prayers. And yet it took God 50 years to answer the prayers? At a million abortions a year, God was so offended by the termination of pregnancies that he allowed 50 million abortions to occur while […]
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What is the pro-life goal?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A provocative Christian tweet about the attack on Roe prompted a lot of reaction. Let’s conclude by looking at personal responsibility and then asking what the pro-life actions will actually deliver.
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The terrible side effects of a post-Roe world
Reading Time: 3 minutes The side effects of the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade are causing a ripple of issues that could cost people their lives. And I’m not talking about attempting a self-induced abortion, despite the popular clothes-hanger imagery, or about how an untreated ectopic pregnancy basically means death. No, I mean women who are being denied […]
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Adopt and make them Christian: Oklahoma politicians theocratize the uterus
Reading Time: 5 minutes OnlySky · Adopt and make them Christian—Oklahoma politicians theocratize the uterus | Seth Andrews Oklahoma, my home state, just passed House Bill 4327, the strictest abortion ban in the United States. Already anticipating a spike in new births, theocrats in our government are charging Christian churches and constituents to become adopters and fosters. On a […]
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Is your activism getting in activism’s way?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Humans can be pretty nifty. When something goes wrong, when there’s a crisis in need of immediate redress, many of us are right there on the frontlines, trying to help. And sometimes knowing how to help is easy! Show up here. Sign the petition there. Contact your government representatives (always). But in many situations, the […]