Vatican
The Vatican is at it again, but now it's searching for life on other planets. Can progressives lead while the Vatican researches?
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By Jon O'Brien, Catholics for Choice July 13, 2009 - 7:00am
Pope Benedict recently claimed that the church does not "interfere in any way in the politics of States." However, recent evidence suggests that the pope's claims that church does not "interfere...in the politics of States" are more than a little disingenuous.
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Catholics are assimilated into American culture, and Americans have an unequivocal relationship with contraception: we want it, we need it, we use it.
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The President of Brazil's Catholics for Choice talks about the impact of the Church's excommunication (and later retraction) of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who sought an abortion.
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By Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services March 23, 2009 - 12:08pm
The focus of this Congress, along with the presidential administration, must be on creating down-to-earth reproductive health care policy, instead of being swayed by battles over who holds the higher moral ground.
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Every minute a young woman dies from complications of pregnancy or childbirth, someone finally tells the Vatican nine year old rape victims deserve compassion, crisis pregnancy centers fight standards of care in Texas.
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If you can't grasp the basics -- women have minds and feelings, just like men -- it's a short jump to dehumanizing women and girls in other ways.
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By Damaris Mounlom, International Women's Health Coalition March 20, 2009 - 7:00am
If the Catholic Church wants to stem new HIV/AIDS infections in Africa, they must recognize that women and girls are more vulnerable to new infections than their male peers because the "liberation of women" has not yet been fully realized.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva has chastised the Catholic Church for excommunicating the doctors and family of the nine-year-old girl who had an abortion.
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Legalized abortion in Catholic Spain? Maybe the times really are changing.
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