The NAE has tentatively embraced contraceptive use among unmarried evangelical young people in an effort to cut the abortion rate. I explain this huge shift in position in the context of other things I have written about the pro-life movement, suggest that the movement may be shifting to align its actions more with its “save the babies” rhetoric, and suggest a future split in the pro-life movement.
In the run up to the election, the conservative media rejected the dominant narrative regarding who would win the presidential election. While Nate Silver analyzed polls and consistently predicted an Obama win, Fox News insisted that Silver and the polls were skewed and predicted that Romney would win handily. And then Obama won. What happened, exactly?
Some commenters on my pro-life movement post expressed skepticism that I could have so changed my mind so thoroughly over one lunch and one set of statistics. And so I asked myself: How did my perspective change so completely and so suddenly? What was it that so challenged how I had viewed the issue before, and why? In this post I further hash out what went on in my mind that day, and explain the paradigm shift I underwent.
For ages now,proponents of “traditional” marriage have been arguing that any gains in marriage equality were the products of judicial or legislative “activism,” pointing to the fact that every time marriage equality has been put to a popular vote it has been voted down. The people, they said, affirm the importance of “traditional” marriage. Yesterday that changed.
Hey everyone, today is election day! Vote vote vote! Also, feel free to use this thread to discuss the election.
I heard politics preached from the pulpit on a regular basis in the evangelical megachurch I attended as a girl, teen, and young adult. Today I hear politics preached from the pulpit at the Unitarian Universalist church I have been attending for the last few months. In this post I hash out a few of the similarities and differences I have noticed.
Addressing a post by Marc of Bad Catholic gives me the opportunity to examine further the question of strategies that might reduce the number of abortions that occur. Just what do the Guttmacher Institute’s numbers on abortion rates worldwide tell us? What is the role of poverty? How does relationship between laws restricting abortion and personal a belief that abortion is wrong affect abortion rates? All this and much more.
I have been impressed over the last week at the outpouring of interesting and thought-provoking articles being put out regarding the abortion issue. With the election approaching and the increasing role abortion has played in politics recently, I suppose this outpouring only makes sense. In this post I provide links to seven articles I have found interesting, and offer a representative quotation from each. Happy reading!
After reading through the massive comment thread on my post on the pro-life movement, I have put together a list of questions and points to be addressed. I will be writing future, more focused followup posts looking at some of these issues, but I thought I would briefly address some of questions and comments here first. Some of the questions I tackle include whether my sources are guilty of “liberal bias,” why I spend so much time talking about zygotes, whether abortion is a way for people to avoid “responsibility” and the “consequences” of sex, and the difference between causing a death and allowing deaths to occur.
The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the movement. Five years later I have lost the last shred of faith I had in the pro-life movement. This is my story. I’d like to challenge your thinking on the subject and invite you along for the ride.
Last night Richard Mourdoch, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Indiana, made a statement that seemed to indicate that God causes rape. In this post I explore his statement, his position on abortion, his opponent’s position, and the separation of church and state.
From his comment about “binders full of women” to turning a question about equality in employment into a discussion of cooking supper, Mitt Romney made it clear once again in last night’s debate that he is simply out of touch on women’s issues. In this post I will pull out three Romney quotes and discuss what they reveal about Romney’s views on motherhood, working parents, and poor women. I invite my readers to contribute additional quotations as well!
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