“Religious Groups Equate Some Contraceptives With Abortions”
Read a Feb. 16, 2012, New York Times article about how religious groups equate some contraceptives and abortion.
Category: Beliefs & practices
“What the contraception controversy taught us about religion in America”
Read an article by Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, about the debate over contraception in America. The Feb. 17, 2012, column is on The Washington Post’s On Faith blog.
“Catholic Hospitals Expand, Religious Strings Attached”
Read a Feb. 20, 2012, New York Times story about how the growth of Catholic hospitals might limit access to reproductive care.
“States, Catholics sue over contraceptives rule”
Read a Feb. 23, 2012, Reuters story about the first major lawsuit being filed over the coverage mandate. The plaintiffs include seven states, as well as Catholic groups and individuals.
“How the Catholic Church almost came to accept birth control”
Read a Feb. 24, 2012, Washington Post op-ed column about the Catholic Church and birth control. It’s by historian Elaine Tyler May, author of America + the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril and Liberation.
“Church could be forced to ‘give up’ public work, Cardinal George says”
Read a Feb. 28, 2012, EWTN News/CNA article in which Chicago Cardinal Francis George says the Catholic Church may be forced to halt its work in the public square, such as in hospitals and universities, because of the contraception coverage mandate.
“The Bible and Birth Control”
Read a March 2, 2012, blog post on crosswalk.com about the Bible and birth control.
“Most Catholic women use birth control banned by church”
A Guttmacher Institute study found that 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women in the U.S. have used a birth control method not sanctioned by the church. The full report, titled “Countering Conventional Wisdom: New Evidence on Religion and Contraceptive Use,” provides numerous other religion-related statistics, as well.
“Catholics’ Approval of Obama Little Changed”
As of mid-February 2012, the controversy over birth control hadn’t significantly affected Catholics’ views of Obama, according to Gallup Daily tracking.