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Trump Reimposes Anti-Abortion Global Gag Rule

Mar 1, 2017

In his first week in office, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order that reinstated President Ronald Reagan’s anti-choice Global Gag Rule, a policy that restricts women’s health care.

Also known as the Mexico City Policy after it was announced in that city in 1984, the rule prohibits the U.S. government from providing funding to international health organizations that discuss abortion as a family planning option or provide abortion as a service.

These Fundamentalists Are Not Going To Tolerate Legal Abortion And Marriage Equality. So There.

Oct 17, 2016 by Rob Boston in Wall of Separation

I opened up my Washington Post yesterday morning – yes, I still read a paper edition – only to see a full-page ad on page A7 headlined, “DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE UPON GOD AND HIS HOLY BIBLE.”

“Oh, this ought to be good,” I thought.

Indeed, the ad didn’t disappoint. It stated that people have certain rights given to them by the Creator and among them “is the right to exercise our Christian beliefs as put forth in God’s Holy Bible.”

Birth Control Battles: The Theocrats’ Long War On Contraceptive Access

Jun 8, 2016 by Sarah E. Jones in Wall of Separation

Yesterday marked the 51st anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, a landmark Supreme Court decision that broadened access to contraception. In a 7-2 decision, the nation’s highest court found that the Connecticut Comstock Act of 1879, which banned contraceptives, violated the Fourteenth Amendment right to privacy.

Six Degrees of Extremism: Dear Documents Show That Religious Right Rhetoric Likely Inspired Planned Parenthood Shooting

Apr 14, 2016 by Sarah E. Jones in Wall of Separation

There’s no question alleged Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear Jr., committed his bloody act due to his belief that abortion is murder. But recently unsealed courtroom documents reveal just how much Dear idolized a violent faction of the Religious Right.

Presentation Problems: Sectarian Speakers Find Ways To Preach To Public School Students

Jan 6, 2016 by Sarah E. Jones in Wall of Separation

Public schools are paying religious groups to speak to students, and the presentations aren’t always as secular as they claim, Slate reported today.

According to investigative journalist Katherine Stewart, some groups bent on spreading a sectarian message in public schools have discovered an “effective” way into what should be a secular setting.

Radical Rhetoric: When Lies Lead To Violence And Death

Jan 3, 2016

On Nov. 30, a day when many Americans were kicking off holiday shopping in earnest, a man named Robert Lewis Dear had other ideas. He burst into a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs and allegedly started shooting. Three people were killed and several injured before Dear was subdued.

Court Rejects Mich. Catholic Hospital Policy Suit

Sep 1, 2015

A federal court has dismissed a suit claiming that a Catholic hospital’s refusal to perform abortions negatively impacted patient care.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Holmes Bell ruled against Tamesha Means, who had sued the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), arguing that Muskegon, Mich.,-based Mercy Health Partners had caused her “severe, unnecessary, and foreseeable physical and emotional pain and suffering” by adhering to USCCB policy on abortion care.

Crisis of Faith: Religious Facilities Rely On Misleading Tactics, Dupe Women

Sep 19, 2014 by Sarah E. Jones in Wall of Separation

A new VICE documentary reveals that publicly funded, religiously motivated crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) represent a growing national problem. Hosted by Fazeelat Aslam, Misconception tackles the misleading advertising tactics used by many, if not most, CPCs to disguise their true intentions: To dissuade women from accessing legal abortion, and to proselytize anyone who comes through the door.

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