Reproductive Control & Anti-Abortion

The following kicks off RD and PRA’s special coverage of the Pray Vote Stand Summit. All subsequent posts can be found here. - eds 9/14/2022 Evening The Family Research Council’s Pray Vote Stand…

The Christian Right is using a new tactic to deny the international right to abortion: sovereignty.

While his name may not be familiar to most Americans, for 40 years, between 1873 and 1915, the mutton chopped and cherubic faced Anthony Comstock was one of the more powerful and feared people in…

This past Sunday, at a “Right to Life dinner and auction” in a Detroit suburb, University of Michigan head football coach and keynote speaker Jim Harbaugh told his audience that women must “ have the…

The separation of church and state feels like bedrock in America. It is, after all, part of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment—that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment…

A Q&A with author and activist Suzanne Pharr on her book Transformation, and her experience fighting the Right and her hopes for the future.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade , many Christians have gone to their Bibles. Some in joy as they celebrate. Some for comfort as they worry about what comes next. Others for…

Now that Roe and Casey have been overturned, the roles of the institutional Roman Catholic Church and of most of the Catholic Supreme Court justices are transparent. Their ‘victory’ was the fruit of…

The U.S. Supreme Court decided that for now, bodily autonomy is not a protected freedom. We are faced with an urgent call to action.

Overturning Roe v. Wade was inevitable in this last decade. In March 2015, the state of Indiana sentenced 33-year-old Asian American woman, Purvi Patel to 20 years in prison on charges of feticide —…