US midterms: Faith groups weigh the impact of abortion on the polls
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports that there is growing uncertainty surrounding how religious voters and others will engage with abortion policy as they head to the polls in the US midterms next month…
Abortion in the US: In Kansas vote, a blow to Catholic bishops’ political strategy
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports on suggestions that this week’s rejection of moves against abortion in Kansas was also a rejection of the Catholic Church hierarchy and may hint hint at a mounting backlash against the church’s involvement in the abortion debate…
Essay: In the US, Gen Z mixes abortion politics – like all their politics – with spirituality
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JOSH PACKARD, executive director of Springtide Research Institute, says data shows college-age Americans are resisting fixed definitions for what it means to be religious…
After Roe v Wade: In the US, anti-abortion movement faces internal divisions
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports that in the wake of the Dobbs decision, abortion foes hope to ban abortion where they can and find ‘creative approaches’ like shareholder activism to punish abortion rights supporters…
Roe v Wade overturned: For the religious right, a victory 50 years in the making
YONAT SHIMRON and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, report on how a mighty coalition comprising mostly conservative Catholics, evangelical Christians and Mormons grounded its theological aims in the language of human rights and played its politics unrelentingly…
Essay: If Nancy Pelosi is denied Communion, why not William Barr?
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JOHN GEHRING, Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, says that moves to punish one and celebrate the other reveals how some Catholic leaders act like mere partisans…
US Supreme Court leak: Some Catholic abortion foes are uneasy about overturning Roe
DAVID CRARY, of Associated Press, reports on Catholic responses to the leaked US Supreme Court draft opening which suggests a majority of the nine justices are poised to reverse the 1973 Roe v Wade decision…
Vatican archbishop to bring Pope Francis’ take on being pro-life to the United States
Vatican City RNS Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, who heads the Vatican’s thinktank on life issues, arrived in New York on Monday hoping to disarm Americans’ well-defended positions on the topic by talking about what it means to be pro-life in the Catholic Church today. “Sometimes, in the United States, but not only there, the pro-life perspective […]
Sight-Seeing: Being pro-life demands sacrifice – for a pandemic, too
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article published on Religion News Service, says it is not asking too much – in fact, it’s really the bare minimum – for those of us who believe we are justified in asking a woman to sacrifice much to preserve a life growing inside her body to inconvenience our own bodies […]
US Supreme Court won’t stop Texas abortion ban, but lets clinics sue
Washington DC, USAP The US Supreme Court on Friday left in place Texas’ ban on most abortions, offering only a glimmer of daylight for clinics in the state to challenge the nation’s most restrictive abortion law. The decision, little more than a week after the court signaled it would roll back abortion rights and possibly overturn its […]