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Farewell to ‘unabashed atheist’ FFRF member Connie Threinen

Connie Threinen 2004 Convention 2 Farewell to ‘unabashed atheist’ FFRF member Connie Threinen

As FFRF honorary director and famed neurologist Oliver Sacks poignantly wrote before his own death: “My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself. There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one […]

We need the Women’s Health Protection Act

Abortion Supreme Court 6 8 20 1 We need the Women’s Health Protection Act

We need comprehensive reform to women’s reproductive health care in the United States. The Women’s Health Protection Act is a crucial step in that direction — and that’s why we must urge our representatives to pass this vital bill. It has been three weeks since Texas Senate Bill 8 went into effect. Erroneously called the “Texas […]

The long, long journey to women’s equality

Suffrage Centennial SS Web The long, long journey to women’s equality

The centennial this month of the 19th Amendment provides an occasion to chart the long, long journey to women’s equality — and to realize how religion has played a deeply negative role.