This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria welcomes Kristen Day, the executive director of Democrats For Life of America and the author of Democrats For Life: Pro-Life Politics and the Silenced Majority.
Abortion
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
FBI investigates fire at office of prominent anti-abortion lobbying group
Police said Monday that they hadn’t arrested anyone over a weekend fire and vandalism at the office of a prominent Wisconsin anti-abortion lobbying group.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A better abortion debate is possible. Here’s where we can start.
I invited my pro-life and pro-choice friends over to discuss abortion. It went surprisingly well.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
If the Catholic Church is pro-life, why is its maternity leave so bad?
This week on “Jesuitical,” hosts Ashley and Zac talk to the authors of a new report on maternity leave in the U.S. Catholic Church and react to the leaked Supreme Court opinion that could spell the end of Roe v. Wade.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
I support overturning Roe. But pro-lifers need to understand why so many Americans fear this decision.
To convince our fellow citizens to protect the lives of the unborn we need to recognize why many of them do not trust or easily understand our good motives.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I’ve wanted Roe v. Wade overturned my entire life. So why don’t I feel better now?
All my life, I’ve been waiting for Roe v. Wade to be overturned. Now it looks like it’s going to happen, and it does not feel great.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
U.S. bishops respond to Supreme Court abortion opinion leak: We ‘stand ready to help all pregnant women’
“We hope and pray for a change in our laws and stand ready to help all pregnant women in need in each of our communities,” Archbishop William Lori said in a statement on Wednesday.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We have more common ground on abortion than you think. Don’t let a Supreme Court leak threaten it.
With a focus on unity—even in spite of substantial differences—the issue of abortion looks quite different than the picture painted by those who want to see our polity burned to the ground.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
The next issue in the abortion debate after Roe v. Wade: Do we really honor motherhood?
The recent leak to Politico of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito suggests that the Supreme Court will soon strike down Roe v. Wade. We must consider the road ahead.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Reproductive freedom doesn’t give marginalized women a real choice to determine their future
Do vulnerable women, especially poor women of color, have the same choices available to them when determining their future and that of their unborn children?