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Showing posts with label women's health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women's health. Show all posts
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Why the Pro-Life Movement Smuggles in Property Rights (Cross Examiner and Jim Barrows on AXP on YouTube)
Why are women viewed by religions as mere incubators in their logical frameworks? Gohan in TX presents a pro-life argument but admits he would kill someone to protect a DVD. The hosts expose the absurdity of valuing property over human life while protecting zygotes.
Sunday, March 8, 2026
The Iran War and Armageddon (Hemant Mehta, The Friendly Atheist podast #625 on YouTube)
Hemant says: This is my weekly podcast for those who want to WATCH it via YouTube. It's a way for myself and my friend Jessica Greiff to discuss stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
Audio only stream and all the relevant links to each story can be found here:
https://friendlyatheistpodcast.com/2026/03/05/the-iran-war-and-armageddon/
Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast
Chapters:
Audio only stream and all the relevant links to each story can be found here:
https://friendlyatheistpodcast.com/2026/03/05/the-iran-war-and-armageddon/
Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast
Chapters:
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:43 Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee is selling Trump's Iran conflict as God's plan.
- 12:28 Before you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for "Armageddon," hear this…
- 36:54 Megachurch pastor forced to repent for recording consensual sex with his wife.
- 58:02 A Nashville woman was prepped for sterilization surgery. Then the Catholic hospital blocked it.
- 1:07:35 Texas Republicans passed a bill creating prayer time at school. 99% of districts rejected it.
Interview: YouTube stream:
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Friday, January 30, 2026
Taliban birth control ban: women ‘broken’ by lethal pregnancies and untreated miscarriages
Women across Afghanistan describe the traumatic impact of disappearing clinics and contraception
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Friday, August 29, 2025
Vet EXPOSES How to STOP Christian Nationalist SNEAK ATTACK on medical care
The VA has proposed ending abortion counseling and care for veterans, and the public-comment period closes September 3—we need your voice now. Ken Harbaugh speaks with Army veteran and researcher Kris Goldsmith, who explains what’s at stake and how to submit a comment today.
To submit a public comment in opposition to the VA’s proposed ban on abortion care, click here and follow the instructions: https://onoffense.substack.com/p/trumps-va-rule-would-ban-abortion .
Interview:
Friday, August 8, 2025
Millions of women could lose birth control due to Trump cuts : NPR
Now, a group of 15 public health organizations is suing the Trump administration, arguing that the federal government jeopardized access to services including birth control for more than 800,000 people due to illegal withholding of Title X dollars.…
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
From the pandemic to porn, here's how norms around sex are shifting for Gen Z (Tonya Mosley; Fresh Air podcast)
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade in 2022, the ruling didn't just eliminate the federal right to abortion; it also ushered in "a generational change in the way that people approach sex," journalist Carter Sherman says.
Sherman is a reproductive health and justice reporter at The Guardian where she's covered the real-world results of abortion bans, access to healthcare for trans people, and how technology is reshaping our view of our bodies and our choices. In her new book, The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over its Future, Sherman writes that Gen Z — which the Pew Research Center defines as people born between 1997 and 2012 — are having less sex than previous generations.
Sherman conducted more than 100 interviews with teenagers, young adults and experts for the book. She says the decline of interest in sex goes beyond the issue of abortion rights.
"We have the rise of the internet, smartphones, social media, porn. We have Me Too, we have the pandemic," she says. "Oftentimes, we think about sex as a thing that happens between two or more people in a bedroom. But in reality, the terms of our sex lives are often set for us in schools and school boards and courtrooms and legislatures in Congress and in the White House."
Sherman notes that during the pandemic, many sex education classes were conducted over Zoom or eliminated completely: "The emerging studies that we have on this topic show that teachers became very nervous, that parents would hear what was going on and that they would object to it," Sherman says. "And indeed, it is true that parents got incredibly incensed over sex ed over the course of the pandemic. And we really see that take shape after the pandemic."
Sherman says that much of the sex ed that now exists in American public schools focuses on abstinence only, rather than offering a more comprehensive take on issues of consent and sexual health. But, she adds, "I don't think you can really roll back the clock at all given the technological inventions that we've seen since the 1950s, birth control, the internet, women's rights in many ways. ... Instead, I really hope that people can look ahead towards the future and see what it is that we're living in now, as opposed to trying to do what I call sexual conservatism."
Interview:
Sherman is a reproductive health and justice reporter at The Guardian where she's covered the real-world results of abortion bans, access to healthcare for trans people, and how technology is reshaping our view of our bodies and our choices. In her new book, The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over its Future, Sherman writes that Gen Z — which the Pew Research Center defines as people born between 1997 and 2012 — are having less sex than previous generations.
Sherman conducted more than 100 interviews with teenagers, young adults and experts for the book. She says the decline of interest in sex goes beyond the issue of abortion rights.
"We have the rise of the internet, smartphones, social media, porn. We have Me Too, we have the pandemic," she says. "Oftentimes, we think about sex as a thing that happens between two or more people in a bedroom. But in reality, the terms of our sex lives are often set for us in schools and school boards and courtrooms and legislatures in Congress and in the White House."
Sherman notes that during the pandemic, many sex education classes were conducted over Zoom or eliminated completely: "The emerging studies that we have on this topic show that teachers became very nervous, that parents would hear what was going on and that they would object to it," Sherman says. "And indeed, it is true that parents got incredibly incensed over sex ed over the course of the pandemic. And we really see that take shape after the pandemic."
Sherman says that much of the sex ed that now exists in American public schools focuses on abstinence only, rather than offering a more comprehensive take on issues of consent and sexual health. But, she adds, "I don't think you can really roll back the clock at all given the technological inventions that we've seen since the 1950s, birth control, the internet, women's rights in many ways. ... Instead, I really hope that people can look ahead towards the future and see what it is that we're living in now, as opposed to trying to do what I call sexual conservatism."
Interview:
Friday, February 14, 2025
Republican states claim zero abortions. A red state doctor calls that 'ludicrous' - ABC News
"To say there are no abortions going on in South Dakota is ludicrous," said Amy Kelley, an OB-GYN in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, citing female patients who have come to her hospital after taking abortion pills or to have medical procedures meant to prevent death or end nonviable pregnancies. "I can think of five off the top of my head that I dealt with," she said, "and I have 15 partners."
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Friendly Atheist News Roundup 10/31/2024 (Hemant Mehta)
— Pastor: The Bible says Harris can’t be president since her parents immigrated here.
— An anti-abortion influencer insists she’ll continue her high-risk ectopic pregnancy.
— A popular NYC theater is owned by the Catholic Church. Now it’s being censored.
— Pastor: If we “publicly execute a few women,” false rape allegations would end.
— The problem with pleading “religious insanity” in court… and how to resolve it.
— After lawsuit, Catholic hospital in California will provide emergency abortion care.
Interview:
— An anti-abortion influencer insists she’ll continue her high-risk ectopic pregnancy.
— A popular NYC theater is owned by the Catholic Church. Now it’s being censored.
— Pastor: If we “publicly execute a few women,” false rape allegations would end.
— The problem with pleading “religious insanity” in court… and how to resolve it.
— After lawsuit, Catholic hospital in California will provide emergency abortion care.
Interview:
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Catholic bishops are spending millions less to fight abortion this election
Morris, of the Missouri Catholic Conference, acknowledged that for the "purposes of messaging," his group is trying to reach Catholics who are not "completely with us 100% on the issue of abortion" by arguing that the state's ballot initiative is a threat to the "safety of women."…
Thursday, October 17, 2024
New report warns of rise in pregnancy criminalization in Post-Roe America
In fact, most prosecutions documented in the report did not actually involve abortion: Of the 200 cases, only one was prosecuted under a law specifically meant to criminalize abortion. The others involved statutes related to child abuse, neglect or endangerment, which treat an embryo or fetus as a person with legal rights that compete with those of the pregnant person. The report notes that prosecutors often don't need to prove that any actual harm occurred to the fetus, they merely have to demonstrate that a pregnant woman posed some "risk" to her pregnancy.
That includes the case of Amari Marsh, a 23-year-old South Carolina woman who miscarried in June 2023. After miscarrying, she was arrested and charged with "murder/homicide by child abuse." Marsh spent 22 days in jail before being placed under house arrest. She faced 20 years in prison. It was more than a year later that she was finally cleared by a grand jury and told that her case would not proceed to trial.
And that is what happens when you criminalize abortion: You criminalize pregnant women. When the state has a controlling stake in every pregnant woman's body, every miscarriage is a potential prosecution. …
Saturday, October 12, 2024
One in eight girls sexually assaulted or raped before turning 18, says Unicef
First global estimates of sexual violence against children reveals 'abhorrent magnitude' of the human rights violation…
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Friday, October 4, 2024
Georgia Judge Lifts Abortion Ban After Deaths of Two Women — ProPublica
"It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from 'The Handmaid's Tale' to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb," McBurney's ruling states.
"The Court finds that, until the pregnancy is viable, a woman's right to make decisions about her body and her health remains private and protected, i.e., remains her business and her business alone. When someone other than the pregnant woman is able to sustain the fetus, then — and only then — should those other voices have a say in the discussion about the decisions the pregnant woman makes concerning her body and what is growing within it."
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Doctors issue stark warning as Louisiana reclassifies abortion pills | Louisiana | The Guardian
Officials class mifepristone and misoprostol as 'controlled substances' – which medics say could imperil women's lives…
California Sues Catholic Hospital for Denying Emergency Abortion Care – Mother Jones
…Nusslock's water broke at 15 weeks—far too early for the fetuses to survive—leaving her in excruciating pain and at high risk of developing a severe infection if treatment was delayed. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the standard of care in such cases is to remove the fetuses in a procedure akin to an emergency abortion. One of the twins had already died. But medical staff at the Catholic hospital allegedly told Nusslock that because the other twin still had a detectable heartbeat, Catholic ethical rules prevented them from ending the pregnancy until Nusslock's life was in danger…
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Monday, September 30, 2024
Weekly Roundup: Protecting Women or Policing Bodies? Trump’s Latest and the Fallout (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
In this week’s roundup, we take on Donald Trump’s latest claim of being the “protector of women” and the outrage it sparked.
We dive into the growing threats to women’s rights and healthcare in America, with abortion bans and reproductive health restrictions leading to shocking maternal and infant mortality rates.
We also discuss how political rhetoric turns into real-world consequences, and they expose recent voter suppression efforts in Oklahoma and Texas.
There’s a look ahead to Trump’s 2024 campaign strategy and a hopeful note on local support for Kamala Harris.
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