abortion

Abortion is about real lives enmeshed in the realities of home and work and wages and debt.

Some rabbis are claiming that SB 8 violates the obligations of their faith.

In Latin America, faith and politics are being disentangled.

They’re brave to do so. Do they go far enough?

Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz shows how the post-9/11 US has intensified control of women’s bodies.

The teenager told me she was down to her last option: a hanger. 

People’s lives elude sharply drawn lines.

These draconian new state laws seem more pro-birth than pro-life.

The intertwining of the Catholic Church and politics, from World War I to Trump

Is abortion only the lesser of evils, or can it be a moral good?

The intersection of race and sexuality is the ur-story of American culture.

Abortion, Down syndrome, and the question of prenatal testing

Leni Zumas's novel makes a political point. More importantly, it cultivates empathy.

Most Americans aren't abortion absolutists. The available political options don't reflect this.

As a child, I liked to survey strangers about what it means to be human. Brandon Stanton has created a fully realized version of what I was doing.

A few years after Howard Stephens started providing abortions, he became the target of local anti-abortion protesters. They picketed his home on weekends, distributed leaflets around his neighborhood calling him a murderer, followed his moves around town, and sent hate mail to his son.

Perhaps most concerning, the protesters picketed Howard’s church twice.

There has been a broad and dramatic shift toward more abortion restrictions in the United States. This will almost certainly continue.

Fabrizio Amerini’s analysis creates precision about Aquinas on beginning-of-life issues—something other accounts, especially abortion polemics, often lack.

Is Burwell v. Hobby Lobby about freedom of (corporate) conscience broadly, or is it just about a few specific contraceptives? It can’t really be both.