A Nov. 13, 2007 Washington Post piece on the former governor of Virginia cutting funding for abstinence education programs.

Steven M. Cohen is a research professor of Jewish social policy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and a senior consultant to Synagogue 3000. He is one of the authors of the 2007 National Spiritual Communities Study and can discuss its findings on independent minyanim and havurot.

A chart from Beliefnet.com, “What do world religions believe about abortion?”

A Sept. 28, 2009 story in The New York Times.

Plugged In Online is the online version of an entertainment review magazine produced by the evangelical Christian organization Focus on the Family.

Lindsey B. Harlan is a professor of religious studies at Connecticut College in New London. She is an expert on Hindu marriage.

Lilian Calles Barger is an independent historian and the author of Eve’s Revenge: Women and a Spirituality of the Body, an examination of women’s relationships with their bodies and how that affects their Christianity. Contact via her website.

The History of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. Read a history of abstinence-only sex education and government funding from the National Coalition to Support Sexuality Education.