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A post from DoubleX blogger Amanda Marcotte:
Andrew Sullivan careens very close to revelation
about the anti-choice movement today, asking, "What are the odds that
the Christianists are prepared to do the one thing that would actually
reduce abortions dramatically: guarantee free contraception as part of
a public option." Answer: somewhere between zilch and nada. The
Christianist movement that brought you abstinence-only education
doesn't feel much better about contraception than they do abortion ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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A post from guest blogger Amanda Marcotte:
This is perhaps the least surprising finding of social science to date: "Rates
of births to teenage mothers are strongly predicted by conservative
religious beliefs, even after controlling for differences in income and
rates of abortion." In 2008 the larger public got a taste of what
watchers of the social conservative movement have known for a long
time, which is that they've quietly started to celebrate teenage
motherhood. When
Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston were trotted out as American heroes for
the Big Knock-Up during the Republican National Convention, that was a
wink and a nod to this growing enthusiasm in the Christian right ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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