David Frum (Surprisingly?) Gets it Right on Abortion
Perhaps because he was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush, I don’t often expect to agree with David Frum. However, in his latest piece over at CNN.com, he “gets real” about abortion and I...
View ArticleTop Three Posts in November
These were the three most-viewed posts here at feminismxianity in November 2012: David Frum (Surprisingly?) Gets it Right on Abortion Pussy Riot = Feminism + Religion + Russia Seriously, Where’s Jesus?...
View Article“God Bless the Revolution”
I first heard of Beverly Wildung Harrison when I was a graduate student in theology and discovered her landmark book Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion (Beacon, 1983) while studying...
View ArticleRoe at 40: U.S. Women
On January 22, 2013, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that nationally legalized abortion is 40 years old. Because there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation surrounding one of the most...
View ArticleRoe at 40: Barriers to Abortion Access
On January 22, 2013, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that nationally legalized abortion is 40 years old. Because there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation surrounding one of the most...
View ArticleRoe at 40: Poverty
On January 22, 2013, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that nationally legalized abortion is 40 years old. Because there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation surrounding one of the most...
View ArticleRoe at 40: Racial & Ethnic Inequalities
On January 22, 2013, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that nationally legalized abortion is 40 years old. Because there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation surrounding one of the most...
View ArticleMy Story: ‘Growing Up With Roe’
We’re both over 40 now. I got there a little over a year ago. And forty years ago today, on January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decision in the Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion nationwide for women...
View ArticleWhat’s Really Being Ignored in the Gosnell Case?
The case of Kermit Gosnell became the Friday faux-news-frenzy of the day. Irin Carmon over at Salon.com describes in detail how “There is no Gosnell cover-up.” First, it received plenty of media...
View ArticleApply Now: Faith & Reproductive Justice Institute
If 2012 taught us anything, it was that the conservative forces seeking to deny women and families access to basic reproductive healthcare are not going away. It was also that they continue to use...
View ArticleTrusting Women
Last night, I delivered the following as part of a series of “Big Tent” speeches at an event hosted by the Morgan County Democratic Central Committee here in Illinois. It was a fundraiser and a...
View Article“Christians Get In Jacked-Up Situations, Too”
"My belief in God tells me that the most important thing you can do for another human being is help them in their time of need.”
View ArticleFaith Leaders Issue Statement Opposing 20-Week Abortion Ban Bill
I have written here before about my involvement in the Faith and Reproductive Justice Leadership Institute at the Center for American Progress, and have written to commemorate the anniversary of Roe v....
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Would Serve Mary
After dismissing the edited videos that pretend to catch Planned Parenthood staffers in a compromising position, Jay Michaelson takes on the issue of fetal tissue donation and points out: “Nearly 20...
View ArticleFor Women Who Aren’t Contrite
When I first heard about Pope Francis’ offer of forgiveness for women who had had abortions, provided they were “with contrite heart,” during the upcoming Holy Year of Mercy (starting December 8), my...
View ArticleWhite Conservative Evangelical Heteropatriarchal Terrorism in a Gun Culture...
I’ve been too unspeakably angry about the terrorist attack on Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs last week to write much about it. Yes, it was a terrorist attack. Any act of violence that is meant...
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