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Another Poll on Contraceptive Coverage Finds Catholics Support Obama Position

New poll from Public Policy Polling.
Sarah Posner
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Ross Douthat’s Blinders on Abortion

Public opinion is more complex than his own.
Sarah Posner
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Komen, Planned Parenthood, and Conspiracy Theories

Anti-choice activists and the USCCB claim there’s a cover-up of a purported abortion-breast cancer link.
Sarah Posner
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Religion Dispatches

Rodriguez on Nativism in the GOP and Socially Conservative Latinos

What is the non-polarizing movement he’s talking about?
Sarah Posner
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Personhood Activists Regroup as “Next Civil Rights Movement”

Are the “incrementalists” winning?
Sarah Posner
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Mississippi Personhood Amendment Fails

What does this mean for fetal personhood measures across the country?
Sarah Morice-Brubaker
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Personhood Shenanigans

Lila Rose is not from Mississippi…
Sarah Morice-Brubaker
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I Would Also Like a Splinter Scouting Organization, Please

Two sisters quit the Girls Scouts over “anti-life, pro-abortion agenda.”
Sarah Morice-Brubaker
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In Which I Explain why Marathon Runners are Depraved and Should Just Have their Knees Fall Off Before I Give them One Red Cent

Just be patient, everyone. I’ll get to my pro-God’s-design-for-walking summary in a moment. First, though, some news.
Sarah Morice-Brubaker
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The Silly Calls for Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood

The sound and fury of Americans United for Life’s report.
Sarah Morice-Brubaker
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