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Obama's Choice of anti-LGBT Pastor Draws Fire
Members of the LGBT community across the nation have been expressing outrage at President-Elect Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Mr. Warren heads a megachurch in California and has been a strong opponent of equality for gays...
Bush Enacts Anti-Abortion Regulation
The Bush administration has enacted the Provider Conscience Regulation we blogged about in the past. This policy allows a wide group of medical personnel to refuse providing any medical service to which they object on moral grounds. But even before the Bush...
FDA Advisory Panel Approves New Female Condom
The Food and Drug Administration's advisory panel voted 15-0 last week to approve sales of a new female condom in the United States. The new condom is quieter, made of softer material, and will most likely be less expensive than the current female condom on the...
Vatican Perpetuates Misinformation about Abortion
Last week the Vatican issued a sweeping treatise on bioethics (in PDF). In the document, in addition to condemning abortion, it took aim at the morning-after pill, IUDs and RU-486, saying that these too can result in abortions. RU-486 can, indeed, be used to induce...
Anti-choice activist still spreading misinformation
Earlier, we blogged about Ross Douthat's op-ed in the New York Times contending that the anti-choice activists are not out of touch with mainstream Americans, which we exposed as a misrepresentation of the very radical goals of the movement. We also blogged about...
