Hobby Lobby, Healthcare & Religion
David Green, the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby, says he opposes insurance coverage of birth control because he believes it can "cause abortions." Furthermore, he states that his opposition is based on...
View ArticleDown the Rabbit Hole
I feel like I’m losing my mind. Is this America in 2014? Or, did I somehow end up in a parallel universe, like on the t.v. show “Sliders”? I’m kind of sick and spinning. But I have not eaten a...
View ArticleContraception, Implantation and "Evidence-Based Medicine"
One of the "interesting" aspects of the Hobby Lobby case is that it is based on the false assertion that the birth control methods in question are "abortifacient." Apparently this is a widely held...
View ArticleDon't Spread Your Legs
In my previous posts (1) I have discussed the biblical, biological and ethical dimensions of the "pro-life" (i.e., anti-choice, forced-birth) debate. Now I will address the more practical sociological...
View ArticleInventing Facts by Default
Well, this is certainly an "interesting" development: As I have discussed in my blog and numerous posts, Hobby Lobby's "sincere belief" that the 4 birth control methods in question are "abortifacient"...
View ArticleWomen's Liberty and Bodily Sovereignty
The heated debate over reproductive rights in America today, in 2014, is both bizarre and frightening for a woman who grew up in the age of Women’s Liberation. We thought these issues had been settled...
View ArticleAnother Look at Religion
Once again I have found myself involved in discussion around an issue that keeps coming up, the same thing back and forth endlessly, so that I think it is worth addressing in my blog for future...
View ArticleReligion, Science and Dogmatism
In the wake of recent events, particularly the Supreme Court ruling that corporations owned by fundamentalist Christians can obtain a religious exemption from insurance coverage of birth control, there...
View ArticleI Can't Breathe and I am Afraid
I CAN'T BREATHE!omg. Let me see if I comprehend this.In America today, not only can the police kill you for being a rude young "thug," stealing a few cigars and then being rowdy, grappling with an...
View ArticleLetting God Out of the Box
Reflections on Frank Schaeffer’s “Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God - How to give love, create beauty and find peace.”I wanted to write a formal “review” of this book, but initially couldn’t...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Call Myself a “Believer”
In a previous post, "Another Look at Religion" I discussed my view of religion as mythology, something that belongs in the same category as art, music, theater, poetry and literature, the purpose of...
View ArticleBiology, Personhood and Civil Rights
I wrote this article in 2013 and was inspired to post it today upon reading Leslie Salzillo's diary re: Sister Chittister and the subsequent comments.I have already discussed the issue of abortion at...
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