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[Photo: Male legislators vote by raising their hands.]

Opposing Anti-Choice Legislation Isn’t a Violation of Religious Freedom, It’s an Expression of It

While some have argued that opposition to a woman’s right to make decisions about her body is a legitimate religious freedom issue, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the religious freedom issue at stake in the abortion debate.

[Photo: A gender non-conforming person looks worried as they sit in a clinic room in a hospital gown.]

Our So-Called Health Department Is Doing Everything It Can to Deny Care to Millions

Mary Alice Carter

People should never fear they’re going to be refused care based on their gender or their past medical decisions.

[Photo: Two gender queer people look concerned as they talk in a clinic lobby.]

Trump Administration Announces Fresh Attack on LGBTQ, Reproductive Rights (Updated)

Jessica Mason Pieklo & Pope Francis Dithering About Women, Skittish About Cops

Proposed changes to Section 1557 announced Friday would eradicate protections in the Affordable Care Act for LGBTQ patients as well as access to reproductive care.

[Photo: Two intrauterine devices (IUD) lay side by side atop a pink background.]

Catholic Hospitals Can Deny Patients Contraception. This Is My Story.

Evann Normandin

If the Trump administration gets its way, be prepared for an outpouring of stories that bear a resemblance to this one, but don’t wrap up so neatly.

After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump

Hollis Phelps & L. Benjamin Rolsky

Many have argued that Trump is little more than a “scam artist” who has duped evangelicals into following him. But it’s the other way around: Trump didn’t use the religious right to win the presidency; the religious right used Trump to get what it wanted.

[Photo: A small bottle of Truvada sits on a sink next to a glass of water and a PreP pill.]

Trump Touted Gilead’s Donation of HIV-Prevention Medication, But Doctors Want Generics—Not Charity

Sony Salzman & Pope Francis Dithering About Women, Skittish About Cops

Gilead’s charitable donation wasn’t enough to quell a mounting tide of anger directed at the company.

[Photo: An Obria Medical Clinics sign affixed to a clinic building.]

Anti-Choice Clinic Network Sues Because It Has to Use Title X Funds for Abortion Referrals (Updated)

Dennis Carter

Obria Group sued the Trump administration last week, claiming current Title X requirements violate the anti-choice group's First Amendment rights and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The Department of Health and Human Services Is Setting a Dangerous Precedent for Allowing Doctors to Deny Care

Sarah Stephan

For decades, health-care providers have had the ability to decline to provide care that conflicts with their religious beliefs. The new HHS rule goes above and beyond legal precedent.

[Photo: Kayla Gore stands with TLC’s organizing program associate Micky Bradford in front of an oversized purple banner that reads

Transgender People Report ‘High Levels of Violence’ in the U.S. South

Nico Lang

A new study found that nearly half of transgender people living in 13 Southern states reported “high levels of violence by strangers."

Pope Francis Dithering About Women, Skittish About Cops

Mary Hunt

In continuing to oppose women's ordination the pope argues that something has to be revealed in order for it to be done; but that we don’t do it so it must not have been revealed. A cursory examination of change on Catholic views of the death penalty and usury make quick mincemeat of that argument. Revelation provides direction toward increased justice; it's not a checklist of historical givens.

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