Category: Abortion & birth control
Rachel Laser
Rachel Laser is the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an advocacy organization that seeks to reduce entanglement between the government and faith groups. She previously served as deputy director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, where she worked on social justice issues, including gun control, abortion […]
Ghazala Anwar
Ghazala Anwar is an associate professor of Quranic studies at Starr King School for the Ministry, a Unitarian Universalist school, at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. She is also on the steering committee of GTU’s Women’s Studies in Religion program. Among her areas of interest are women in Islam and gender equality.
“Survey: Majorities support requiring companies to abide by controversial contraception mandate”
Read a June 2, 2014, Religion News Service story about a Public Religion Research Institute poll that shows most Americans favor the contraception mandate.
“Awaiting Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling, public favors contraception mandate”
Read a June 23, 2014, Religion News Service story rounding up various polls that show differing levels of support for each side in the case.
Paul D. Clement
Paul D. Clement is an attorney with the Washington, D.C., law firm Bancroft PLLC.
Jodi Magee
Jodi Magee is founding president and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health.
State policies on emergency contraception
The Guttmacher Institute offers this Feb. 1, 2014, summary of state policies on emergency contraception, including a chart that shows which states allow pharmacists to refuse to dispense it. See also the institute’s February 2014 explanation of state policies on insurance coverage of contraceptives.