Contra Justice Ginsburg, the Hobby Lobby decision is no cause for alarm. Yet we should acknowledge and address a fear she highlights: the serious obstacles women face today in the realms of sex, marriage, and parenthood.
Author: Helen Alvaré (Helen Alvaré)
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We Need a Real Women’s Agenda, Not Government-Funded Abortion
By passing HR 7, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, Congress could settle the matter of federal funding for abortion once and for all, and start addressing the real needs of American women. Adapted from testimony delivered before the House Judiciary Committee on January 9, 2014.
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Without Words to Describe
Those of us who value life over death, vibrant religious exercise, and the good of natural marriage need to find our voice again even though the powers-that-be are redefining words arbitrarily and avoiding reason.
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Bad Science and Failed Freedom Protections in the HHS Mandate
The latest proposed amendment to the HHS mandate still draws on empirically unsound data and violates religious freedom.
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Contraception and Women’s Wellbeing: Physical Health, Happiness, and Religion
Poor women will bear the brunt of government promoted contraceptive programs, along with its problematic side-effects. While contraception does not manufacture female happiness as its proponents suggest, religion can. The third in a three-part series.
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Contraception and Women’s Wellbeing: NFP, Disillusionment, and the Poor
Contraception isn’t the only way to plan a family, and it certainly isn’t cost-free: contraception leads to sexual disillusionment and weakens the marriage culture at the expense of the least well-off women. The second in a three-part series.
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Planned Parenthood and the Government v. Religious Liberty and Women’s Wellbeing
An unprecedented campaign against religious liberty, characterized by a formidable alliance between the White House and Planned Parenthood, bolstered by money, power, and market branding, is threatening women’s well-being. The first in a three-part series.
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The White House and Sexualityism
Against what social science tells us about human happiness, the government is promoting sexualityism—a commitment to uncommitted, unencumbered, inconsequential sex—as the answer.
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Equality versus Freedom?
Lawmakers must look past the “equality versus religious freedom” standoff, and consider the substantive merits of each particular case.
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Contemporary Family Law: Divorcing Marriage from Children
Family law has changed during the past 50 years to the detriment of child well-being, paving the way for the arguments in support of same-sex marriage. But there is a new strategy available to us to respond to this situation. The second in a two-part series.
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Traditional Family Law: Connecting Marriage with Children
The Supreme Court was more right than it knew during the past two centuries as it identified the state’s interest in marriage as children and their formation. The first in a two-part series.
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Healthcare, Conscience, and Religious Liberty: A Response to Linda Greenhouse
New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse refuses to see the truth about contraception, conscience, and religious liberty.
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Conscience, Coercion, and Healthcare
A recent rule issued by the Obama administration threatens our nation’s healthcare by attacking the consciences of our nation’s healthcare providers.
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Uphold Conscience Protection: Religious Freedom’s Contribution to the American Experience and Threats to its Survival
Religious communities are an essential part of the fabric of America, even over and above the vital services they provide to weak and vulnerable members of our communities; we must protect their conscience rights against legal coercion.
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Contracepting Conscience
The new, pro-contraceptive recommendations by the Institute of Medicine endanger the health and well-being of women.
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Repelling the Attack on Conscience
A new bill is needed to fix the healthcare law’s failure to adequately safeguard conscience
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Abortion Law is Family Law
Abortion law is usually seen as a matter of constitutional law. Is it time for that to change?
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A Concluding Argument about Abortion in Health Care
Arguments have been aired. The facts are in. It’s time for all pro-lifers to acknowledge the shortcomings of the new health care bill.
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A Health Care Challenge to Commonweal and Timothy Jost
Recent events suggest that Commonweal and Timothy Jost need to reassess their arguments about health care and abortion
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How the New Health Care Law Endangers Conscience
The new health care law has endangered longstanding protections on conscience. We must act to address them or risk creating a dangerous precedent.