A report defends Trump’s mass pardoning of 23 people who were convicted under the Biden administration for violating the FACE Act, saying it was anti-Christian bias. Read more at 19th News
Despite the problems with Benton and Lea, no one came off worse at this week’s hearing than Justin Olson, an Indianapolis lawyer who specializes in litigation seeking to exclude transgender athletes from college sports. Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy asked Olson about his time as an ordained elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, … Read more
“There’s nobody opposing this other than Speaker Johnson and his religious views,” Duckworth told CNN. “The president of the United States promised on the campaign trail to make IVF available to all Americans,” she added. “And I can’t think of a better place to make it available than the men and women who wear the … Read more
Women of both parties were less likely to support a return to traditional gender roles than men. Support for a return to traditional gender roles was highest among Republican men at 87 percent, followed by Republican women at 79 percent. Democratic women were the least likely to support a return to traditional gender roles — … Read more
The two professional organizations have recently clashed. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine has repeatedly challenged the legitimacy of restorative reproductive medicine, while the International Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine has said patients deserve an alternative to IVF. The back-and-forth comes amid growing nationwide skepticism toward pharmaceutical-led medicine and a push among Christian conservatives to … Read more
Instead of treatment, Project 2025 proposes shaming patients for premarital sex Read more at Salon
By casting excess embryos as ‘little frozen orphans’ that needed to be ‘saved’ these programs push an alarming view of personhood Read more at The Guardian
The New York Times reported this week that the White House is now not only looking for ways to make more women have children, but to encourage “parents” to stay home to raise them. “Parents” here is a euphemism. Roughly 80% of stay-at-home parents are mothers: cultural traditions that encourage women, and not men, to … Read more
Tucker Carlson is a good barometer of this. The internet show he started after he was fired from Fox News has an overtly Christian nationalist lean. He had Means on in September to spread lies meant to scare women out of using hormonal birth control. After Carlson falsely presented it as forbidden information with “you … Read more
Brittni Frederiksen, the associate director for Women’s Health Policy at the nonpartisan health care think tank KFF, is among those skeptical of the groups’ findings. She highlighted, for instance, that the report lists ectopic pregnancies — when an embryo implants outside the uterus — as an “adverse event” from the pills when the pills do … Read more
