Reading Time: 3 minutes In a blunt lecture, a Christian anti-abortion advocate scolds the pro-choice community about civil rights and ends with a big slice of Godwin’s Law.
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.
Posted inReproductive rights
What if the pro-life argument were not religious?
Reading Time: 6 minutes How is a pro-life law driven by Christian motivation legal when it constrains Jewish practice? One Christian ministry responded to this broadside by denying that its argument was religious! Let’s see if this claim holds up.
Posted inReproductive rights
Archbishop bars Pelosi from communion over abortion stance. This will backfire.
Reading Time: 3 minutes In what I can only assume is meant as a threat, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone just announced that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ineligible for communion because she supports abortion rights. He explained in a letter that her actions (defending women’s right to control their own bodies) amounted to a “grave evil” and […]
Posted inReproductive rights
As other states prepare bans, Colorado etches freedom of choice into state law
Reading Time: 5 minutes In September of last year, my worst nightmare came true: Texas passed a severe ban on abortions and instituted a bounty on anyone attempting to aid or receive abortion health care. It was something right out of a dystopian novel. This had already been a reality for millions of people of color—now it had simply […]
Posted inBiology
Uterus 101: On menstruation, miscarriage, and mifepristone
Reading Time: 10 minutes When my Grade 5 class went through Ontario’s reproductive health curriculum in the mid-1990s, the boys and girls were separated, and received remarkably different lessons. Along with the basics of our changing bodies, I and the girls were shown how to use condoms through a banana demonstration, and told how important protection would be when […]
Posted inReproductive rights
The nonreligious are overwhelmingly pro-choice
Reading Time: 2 minutes Nonreligious Americans, and especially atheists, remain far and away the strongest supporters of abortion rights.
Posted inReproductive rights
How to discuss the overturning of Roe v. Wade with our kids
Reading Time: 4 minutes We’ve heard about the SCOTUS decision. Changes to abortion laws are coming. Now it’s time to discuss it with our kids. Here’s how.
Posted inLaw
How Justice Barrett’s religion affects Roe v. Wade
Reading Time: 3 minutes Shall we pretend Amy Coney Barrett’s religion doesn’t matter on the Supreme Court? Article VI of the Constitution says religion can never be used as a qualification for any public office in America. So, religion itself is off-limits as a criterion of merit or demerit. But can the effects of one’s religion be seen as […]
Posted inPolitics
GOP Senate candidate admits he wants to block access to birth control
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Supreme Court’s draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is already leading Republican candidates to consider what other aspects of sex they can shut down. In Arizona, U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters already announced his desire to block access to birth control… even for married couples. But it’s an open question about whether he […]
Posted inEthics and Morality
If we don’t own ourselves, we own nothing
Reading Time: 5 minutes Bodily autonomy is the most fundamental human right. The more diligently we protect it, the freer and better society is, but theocrats want to pull us in the other direction.