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July 2020

July 08, 2020

Why Is Health Insurance Tied to Employers in the First Place?

I also think we need to ask a slightly different question---why is health insurance tied...

November 2019

November 18, 2019

On Answers in Genesis’ Woefully Misplaced Priorities

But no! Answers in Genesis isn't concerned about ensuring that world policies relative to population...

January 2018

January 22, 2018

States May Block Planned Parenthood Funding “to Protect Medicaid Programs and Their Beneficiaries”

To protect Medicaid programs. What does that mean? No, really---in what way is giving recipients...

November 2017

November 13, 2017

What Alias Grace Tells Us about “Consequence-Free” Sex

Grace is chaste, yes. Time and again, she turns down men's sexual advances. But her...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Correcting Assorted Conservative Misinformation

It's ironic, really. Growing up in a conservative evangelical family, I often heard about the...

January 19, 2017

Could Women with IUDs Be Charged with Murder?

The problem with Foreman's legislation, for Wilson, is not that it could involve charging women...

March 2016

March 21, 2016

Kansas Lawmaker Equates Contraceptives with Eugenics

The best way to repudiate eugenics is to empower poor women to make their own...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

When “Pro-Life” Means “Anti-Birth Control”

Through a link on Ladies Against Feminism, I came upon an article titled Planned Parenthood...

February 2015

February 11, 2015

When Men Wax Poetic about My Womb

I want to start out by saying that right now, I am very frustrated. Very...

January 2015

January 20, 2015

Why the Pope’s Recent Comments on Limiting Family Size Were Not Actually “Compassionate”

The pope says that "God gives you methods to be responsible." I have to wonder,...

September 2014

September 16, 2014

Missouri Father Sues for Control of Daughters’ Sexuality

I have no idea what Wieland's daughters think of all of this. They may be...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

So. Hobby Lobby.

The Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision was today. I don't have the time to write...

April 2014

April 01, 2014

Boycotts, Hobby Lobby, and Misplaced Evangelical Outrage

Growing up, my family didn't shop at K-Mart. Along with numerous others, we were involved...

February 2014

February 04, 2014

The Abortion Rate Is Falling. Why?

The abortion rate has come down to an all-time low---the lowest rate since 1973, the...

October 2013

October 03, 2013

Weeds, Birth Control, Trees, and Temperance

Do you remember that image of the weed and flower I posted some time back?...

August 2013

August 05, 2013

Abstinence: A Birth Control Method That Is 100% Effective?

Next time someone tells you that people should just use abstinence as a method of...

May 2013

May 20, 2013

Bad Catholic’s Grating Paternalism

Marc is a Catholic who totally embraces the Church's ban on (artificial) contraception, so when...

May 20, 2013

Bad Logic from Bad Catholic

Marc of Bad Catholic has offered a "rebuttal" of my post of last week criticizing...

May 14, 2013

Whence Opposition to Birth Control? An Illustration.

I've written before suggesting that if pro-lifers are consistent, they should be in favor of...

February 2013

February 04, 2013

Birth Control: The Movie

Birth Control: The Movie fits perfectly within the context of evangelicals' growing reconsideration of birth...

January 2013

January 07, 2013

If Corporations Are People, They Can Be Martyrs. Right?

Hobby Lobby: The First Martyr Under Obamacare? This is the title of an article by...

November 2012

November 24, 2012

The Pill over the Counter and Birth Control Accessibility

The American College of OBGYNs has just released a recommendation that the birth control pill...

November 17, 2012

On Married Women and Separating Sex from Procreation

When I suggested that birth control would decrease the abortion rate, some prolifers argued that...

November 12, 2012

The Battle over Contraception in the Pro-Life Movement

The NAE has tentatively embraced contraceptive use among unmarried evangelical young people in an effort...

November 07, 2012

Okay Then, Let’s Talk about Natural Family Planning

A sizeable number of comments on my post on losing faith in the pro-life movement...

November 05, 2012

If You Don’t Want a Baby, Just Don’t Have Sex?

I have argued that increasing the use of birth control should be favored by pro-lifers...

November 01, 2012

A Response to Objections on My Pro-Life Movement Post

After reading through the massive comment thread on my post on the pro-life movement, I...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement

The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university's Students...

August 2012

August 02, 2012

Our F*cked Up Politics of Healthcare

You want to hear something sad? Just the other day I read that starting August...

July 2012

July 08, 2012

World Magazine calls out the NAE on contraception!

The NAE is supposed to be the voice of evangelicals. Has it also become an...