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Confusion about Religion & Abortion Rights

Statistics and surveys can be useful, but they can also be misconstrued and lead to incorrect conclusions. A new study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life is a case in point. A lot of news stories have been published about the study, stating that support for access to legal abortion is weakening among mainline Protestants...

Carole Joffe: Reproductive Rights and Justice

Carole Joffe spoke on June 21, 2006 at the NSRC.

The State of Sexuality

What the Election '08 says about America's stance on sexual rights

Family Matters

Sixteen-year-old Karina Flores knew something was wrong when she couldn’t button her size five jeans. She wiggled to peel them off her body and threw them on her bed, and opted for her size seven pair instead. As she finished getting ready for another day at school, she stared at her reflection in the mirror. Her face was rounder and less

The Invisible Woman

When I went to college in the 1980s, I hadn’t yet figured out where I stood on the issue of abortion. I’d led a sheltered life as a high school student and didn’t know of any friends who had terminated a pregnancy. The issue was very abstract for me.

Hear the Experts

The Supreme Court has upheld the Federal Abortion Ban, an extremely controversial piece of legislation that an anti-choice controlled Congress passed in 2003. Know what steps you can take if you disagree with the decision.

Sex and the Liberal Christian

Because of the saturation of fundamentalism over the airwaves, one could be forgiven for thinking that the term “liberal Christian” has an oxymoronic quality about it. After all, when was the last time you listened to the local liberal Christian radio station or channel surfed on the tube to watch a liberal Christian televangelist?

Abortion as Moral Panic

Visitors to the United States are often astonished at how central the abortion issue is to American political life. A candidate's position on abortion often comes to define his or her candidacy, whether the race is for a local city council seat or for the presidency. This is almost unknown elsewhere in the world.

Stealth War On Reproductive Rights

After enduring the horror of sexual assault, imagine going to a pharmacy to fill a prescription from your doctor that would greatly reduce the chance of pregnancy, only to be told by the pharmacist that he would not fill the prescription because it conflicts with his “morals.”

"Choose or Lose," Win or Lose?

MTV built a media empire by selling sex to teenagers. But "Choose or Lose: Sex, Votes, and Higher Power" takes sexuality beyond the act, making the connection between politics and people's intimate lives. Three professors look at what the show got right a

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