Reading Time: 3 minutes This morning, I listened to an abortion procedure on NPR, and it was a powerful thing. A patient at a Michigan clinic consented to having her procedure recorded. She wanted to underscore its life-or-death importance in a climate where Michigan citizens will vote next week for an amendment that would enshrine abortion rights into the […]
we have no choice
Journalism and storytelling from the secular perspective about the loss of reproductive rights in the United States and the fight to regain them.
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Two red states go opposite ways on abortion—and the midterms pop into focus
Reading Time: 3 minutes On August 5, 2022, Indiana became the first state to approve an abortion ban after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade. The ban is near total, allowing a very narrow range of exceptions. Three days earlier, on August 2, Kansas had overwhelmingly rejected the first step toward such a ban. Seems like […]
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Lindsey Graham proposes national abortion ban
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lindsey Graham has always been a staunch opponent of abortion rights. Now, he’s proposing new anti-abortion legislation that would ban the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy nationwide. Graham’s proposal comes at a difficult time for Republicans, who have been losing steam in midterm polls, hobbled by the extreme unpopularity of the Supreme Court’s summer […]
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The GOP lawmaker who condemned an extreme anti-abortion bill isn’t a hero
Reading Time: 3 minutes How extreme are GOP abortion bans? So extreme that some Republicans are even daring to publicly question whether their colleagues’ Christian faith is sincere. That’s what South Carolina State Sen. Katrina Shealy did this week after her male Republican colleagues fought to remove exceptions for rape and incest in their near-total abortion bans. As it […]
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Spike in women’s voting reg since Roe defeat could shift midterms to Dems
Reading Time: 2 minutes Women have been registering to vote at a historic rate since the conservative Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. A strong majority of newly registered voters across battleground states have been women. These newly registered voters are much more likely to be young, and they are much more likely to be […]
Posted inReproductive rights
‘Nobody should go through what I went through’—the traumatic pregnancy
Reading Time: 6 minutes CN: Sexual assault Christian crisis pregnancy centers claim to be of service to women in need. Do they serve the actual needs of women, or simply advance a particular religious agenda? I spoke to Rebecca Trotter, a self-described “mom, writer, thinker, talker, teacher, and Christian” whose personal experience when faced with a traumatic pregnancy sheds […]
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Florida: Teen is not ‘mature’ enough for abortion, but mature enough to give birth
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Florida appellate court ruled that a pregnant 16-year-old was “not sufficiently mature” to access abortion services. The teen herself argued in her petition that she was “not ready to have a baby,” as she is still in school, does not have a job, and the father cannot assist her. Court records say that the […]
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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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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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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 […]