abortion
Seeing abortion access as a blessing
“Abortion is not abstract,” says Katey Zeh, CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. “It happens within the context of a real person’s life.”
The faith leaders who helped preserve abortion access in Kansas
In the fight over an antiabortion amendment, Protestant pastors and Catholic sisters worked to show that there is more than one faith-based view.
Thinking through abortion ethics in the classroom
What if we began with character, my students and I asked, rather than rights?
The right to life is an essential human right
Its relationship to abortion, however, is complicated.
My mother said she was pro-life—and worked at Planned Parenthood
There will always be people like her, who are willing to tell the truth that life is choice.
When abortion is mere abstraction
What’s missing from the debate is the wisdom of first-hand experience.
Fantasy and reality after Roe
One can imagine an anti-abortion politics that started with economic solidarity or righteous fury at male sexual license. But the thought experiment only demonstrates its own absurdity.
Roe v. Wade was a compromise
It established a right—a limited one—to make your own decisions in a complex ethical area.
Imagining a new political economy with Miriam of Nazareth
Abortion is about real lives enmeshed in the realities of home and work and wages and debt.
Whose religious freedom is at stake with Texas’s new abortion law?
Some rabbis are claiming that SB 8 violates the obligations of their faith.