In February 2016, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) advised women of childbearing
age to avoid alcohol unless they were using long-term contraceptives. Whether pregnant …

Rebecca Todd Peters is a feminist social ethicist and professor of religion at Elon University.
She received her PhD from Union Theological Seminary in New York, is ordained in the …

A Conrad cartoon'depicts the abortion debate: a woman in silhouette shoulders a button that
says “choice”; in the woman's womb is a fetus holding a button that reads “choice.” The …

Is abortion ethical? The answer to this question is often obscured by rhetoric, slogans, and
politics. And the media message on abortion is often of little help. When the typical American …

What happens when two intelligent and highly informed fictional college students, one
strongly pro-choice and the other vigorously pro-life, are asked to put together a …

My role here is to be an example of how one pro-choice advocate wrestles morally with the
issue of abortion. My perspective on this issue is that of a feminist liberation theologian …

For approximately three decades, the abortion debate has polarized America. Views range
from the extreme conservative position that all abortions are morally objectionable to the …

While she lay recuperating in her hospital bed, she heard a portion of then-President Ronald
Reagan's speech to the Convention of Religious Broadcasters. He attacked abortion as this …

Margaret Kamitsuka is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Oberlin College, Ohio. This excerpt
makes the theological case for why abortion should not be labeled as sin. This discussion …