Reading Time: 2 minutes Republican states have been pushing the envelope on abortion for decades. Although Roe v. Wade had established women had a right to receive an abortion, conservatives fought to narrowly define that right and to limit the time available for women to make that choice. But for decades after the landmark decision, the Supreme Court’s decision […]
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Atheist lawmaker blocks anti-abortion bill pushed by ‘religious extremists’
Reading Time: 5 minutes We’re so used to hearing right-wing politicians use religion to justify their awful policy ideas that it can be jarring to hear a progressive lawmaker smack those ideas down in a barn burner of a speech. Yet that’s what Nebraska Senator Megan Hunt did yesterday in her (ultimately successful) effort to block an anti-abortion bill pushed […]
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The woman who kept aborted fetuses in her home works for an atheist
Reading Time: 4 minutes You may have heard the news by now that police found five dead fetuses inside the home of an anti-abortion zealot. What you may not know is her connection to an atheist who has attempted to bridge the world of secularism and anti-abortion activism. Lauren Handy and the stolen fetuses On Wednesday, nine people were […]
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When abortion is a joke
Reading Time: 5 minutes My college folklore professor Alan Dundes, a scholar often credited with creating the modern field of folkloristics, was an energetic teacher and learner with both a love and an encyclopedic knowledge of the field. When he gave a lecture on “sick” jokes to a hall filled with hundreds of students, I was fascinated. Even though […]
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Anti-abortion NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson paid for an abortion in 1989
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mark Robinson, the Republican Lt. Governor of North Carolina, is all but certain to run for governor in 2024, which is why he’s been spending the past several months going all in on Christian nationalism. This is a guy who, in the past year alone, has said that forced religion in public schools could prevent mass […]
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Black women and abortion on demand without apology
Reading Time: 4 minutes In her 1974 essay In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens, Alice Walker wrote: Did you have a genius of a great-grandmother who died under some ignorant and depraved overseer’s lash? Or was she required to bake biscuits for a lazy backwater tramp, when she cried out in her soul to paint watercolors of sunsets…or was […]
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The Catholic condom conundrum
Reading Time: 5 minutes Conundrum: (noun) A confusing and difficult problem or question. You’re in love. You get married. But you don’t want kids…at least not for awhile. Maybe later. Or maybe not at all. But you definitely do not want kids now. You and your spouse are devout Catholics, so you are anti-abortion. You might also be anti-contraception, […]
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MI GOP gubernatorial candidate urges rape victims to be “heroic” and give birth
Reading Time: 4 minutes “God put them in this moment,” said Republican Garrett Soldano during an interview with a right-wing podcaster.
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Activist pops abortion pill on live TV to show how easy it is
Reading Time: 3 minutes Detroit activist Jex Blackmore took a mail-order abortion pill on live TV, to the shock of many people watching.
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Jex Blackmore has abortion live on the news
Reading Time: 2 minutes Former The Satanic Temple (TST) spokesperson and reproductive rights advocate Jex Blackmore, who was (evicted? I’m going to say evicted) evicted from the organization when … just go watch the movie. Anyway, Jex took an abortifacient pill on air. Let’s get you up to speed At some point during the filming of Hail Satan?, Jex […]