Church was the place I first heard the word feminism, and where I first practiced putting a condom on a banana. So what’s happened to liberal religion?

Written by Trusting Women for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

To judge by his column in today’s Washington Post, Michael Gerson demonstrates a surprisingly poor grasp of the evangelical world. To say (as Gerson does) that evangelicals fear big government is laughable. They love big government — as long as they get to run it.

Only 43 percent of teens have had sex, so we don’t need sex ed and access to contraceptives? Well, according to that logic, I’ve got a few other things we no longer need.

Written by Amanda Marcotte for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

For those of us on the blue side of the divide, theoretically if not geographically, the Palin family saga reminds us that we’re not just fighting an abortion war, but we’re up against an entire way of life built on a deep foundation of contradiction.

Written by Sarah Seltzer for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

In Helena, Montana, educators are trying to implement comprehensive sex education. But the curriculum has spurred furious right-wing opposition, and false claims about the content.

Written by Elizabeth Toledo for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Obama’s 2011 federal budget–to be released next week–will be a strong reflection of the moral vision of the President and his Administration.

Written by William Smith for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Yesterday Sonia Sotomayor because the first Latina nominated to the Supreme Court in U.S. history. She is known for her keen legal mind and her generally liberal philosophy but her record on the bench gives few hints about how she’d rule on abortion.

There are forces in nature no pledge can overcome

President-elect Obama envisions a society that allows Americans to move past the division that has defined a generation of the most bitter politics, division that brought our government to a stalemate.

Written by Scott Swenson for RH Reality Check.