Katherine Don

This month at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a select group of students will show their humanitarian spirit by participating in the Bleedin’ Heathens Blood Drive. Later in the month, they will eat cake to celebrate Darwin Day, and earlier this year, they performed “de-baptism” ceremonies to celebrate Blasphemy Day, attended a War on Christmas Party, and set up Hug An Atheist and Ask An Atheist booths in the campus quad.

All the rage in today’s media, home birth advocates, who run the spectrum from conservative Christians to liberal hippies, are working together to ensure that women are able to make informed decisions about their childbirth.