birth control
Can Reality TV Lower the Teen Birthrate?
By MacKenzie Babb — January 13, 2014
According to a new economic study, shows like MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” and its spin-off, “Teen Mom” may have prevented more than 20,000 births to teenage mothers in 2010 alone.
Al Mohler responds: The evangelical unease over contraception
By R. Albert Mohler Jr. — January 8, 2014
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (RNS) Our concern is to raise an alarm about the entire edifice of modern sexual morality, and to acknowledge that millions of evangelicals have unwittingly aided and abetted that moral revolution by an unreflective and unfaithful embrace of the contraceptive revolution.
Supreme Court Addresses New Challenges to Obamacare Contraception Mandate
By MacKenzie Babb — January 7, 2014
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an injunction December 31 temporarily blocking a portion of the Affordable Care Act that requires religious organizations to offer health care plans covering contraceptives.
COMMENTARY: Why we’re resisting the contraception mandate
By Joseph Kurtz — January 6, 2014
(RNS) If ministries don't comply with the government's contraception mandate, the financial penalties will mean that some ministries may have to close their doors. As that happens, the poor and those who serve them will be hurt the most.
Little Sisters act * Kippah ban * Quelle quenelle?: Religious Freedom Recap: Dec. 30 – Jan. 6
By Brian Pellot — January 6, 2014
Nuns bring SCOTUS and the Obama administration to a head over the federal contraception mandate. Israel’s soccer association lifts its ban on kippahs. And France is in a tizzy over the spread of a rude (and possibly anti-Semitic) hand gesture. No, not that one.
Administration, nuns battle over contraception mandate at Supreme Court
By David Gibson — January 3, 2014
(RNS) The Obama administration and faith-based foes of a rule that employer health insurance policies provide free birth control coverage continued back and forth legal filings on Friday (Jan 3.), though with an odd twist: The Justice department says an order of nuns is exempt from the mandate, while the nuns’ lawyers say they are not.
COMMENTARY: The evangelical unease over contraception
By Jacob Lupfer — December 30, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) Evangelical concerns about contraception are about much more than contraception, and the debate over birth control is a mere skirmish in a larger theological and ideological battle.
Birth Control: Is it up to you — and your boss?
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — November 26, 2013
How the Supreme Court rules in the so-called "Hobby Lobby" case over religious objections to contraception coverage could be as influential as the Citizens United case.
Supreme Court takes up contraceptive mandate, will rule on religious rights of corporations
By David Gibson — November 26, 2013
(RNS) The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will decide whether for-profit businesses can be treated like religious entities.
Vatican seeks input from the pews on marriage and family issues
By David Gibson — November 1, 2013
(RNS) Pope Francis wants to know what rank-and-file Catholics think about gay marriage, divorce and birth control, but it's unclear whether U.S. bishops will poll their flocks or simply report their own thoughts.
Big in Texas: Religious liberty in the public square
By Brian Pellot — September 26, 2013
Advocates enter the church-state debate at Religion Newswriters Association’s pre-conference in Austin, Texas.
Burqa Battle * Baby Messiah * Bacon Attack: Religious Freedom Recap: Sept. 16-23
By Brian Pellot — September 23, 2013
Welcome back to the Religious Freedom Recap, our weekly look at top stories and developments on religious liberty around the globe.
U.S. asks Supreme Court to review Hobby Lobby’s birth control mandate challenge
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — September 20, 2013
(RNS) Hobby Lobby’s lawsuit has been one of the most high profile of 60-some cases involving the Obama administration's contraceptive mandate. The arts and crafts chain was founded by David Green, “the biblical billionaire backing the evangelical movement.”
Catholic hospitals at odds with bishops over birth control mandate
By David Gibson — July 9, 2013
(RNS) The organization representing Catholic hospitals across the country says it no longer objects to the Obama administration’s mandate that all employees receive free birth control coverage. The decision by the Catholic Health Association puts the hospitals at odds with the Catholic hierarchy, which last week rejected the White House’s final regulations.
Politics and the Plan B Appeal
By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux — May 2, 2013
The FDA’s recent decision to lower the age of access for emergency contraception to 15 exposes a tipping point in Americans’ - especially Democrats' - perspectives on contraceptive use for teens.
