The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the pro-life movement. Five years later I have lost the last shred of faith I had in that movement. This is my story.
It seems outlandish to claim that the Catholic bishops' own crusade against contraception is anti-Catholic. Still, arguments that this position is anti-Catholic seem not only well-founded but reasonable, whereas the Catholic bishops' incessant interfering in American women's lady-business is spectacularly unreasonable.
New York City is helping train volunteers for a clinic escort program that will help patients seeking abortion get past anti-choice militants who crowd around clinics slinging invective. Anti-choice whining about this is unintentionally revealing.
Virginia abortion restrictions cause a major government official to resign. Gawker outs a notorious Reddit sexual predator. Also: How non-traditional friendships remake our idea of what friendship can be.
Planned Parenthood has filed a new suit in Texas state court claiming that it cannot, under state law, be excluded from participating in the newly established Texas Women's Health Program.
