Let’s make contraception freely available
While women’s reproductive health care goes into a religious tailspin in the United States, other countries are expanding access — examples we need to emulate. For instance, France’s health minister, Olivier Véran, has announced that all women under the age of 25 will be offered free contraception. This means that starting next year, young women […]
Sex education should be secular
There’s a glaring contradiction at the heart of the Religious Right’s approach toward sex education.
Reproductive restrictions in Catholic hospitals are insidious and anti-women
The right to sterilization — the decision to permanently prevent pregnancy — is threatened all over the country because of religiously affiliated hospitals and medical facilities.
We aren’t afraid of controversy
This week, the Freedom From Religion Foundation showed that it really isn’t afraid of controversy.
FFRF fights for education and women’s rights
Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak in the Wisconsin Capitol on a proposed bill that would make it illegal for the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to train its obstetrics and gynecology residents in how to perform abortions.
Handmaids in Gilead move over —you have company in the United States
Catholic bishops will now determine the contraceptive rights of working U.S. women.
Trump is bringing “Handmaid’s Tale” to life
After the debut of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” President Trump appointed an anti-abortion activist who claims “contraception doesn’t work.”
‘Contraception kills’
Pennsylvania nun (Photo: Justin Vacula) Did you know “contraception kills”? That’s what an intrepid coterie of FFRF’ers was told by true believers when we counterpicketed a June 8 rally conducted by the Roman Catholic Church at the federal courthouse here in Madison, Wis. I held a sign, “Quit the Church,” accompanied by about 20 other […]
