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Dan Savage

A Conversation with Dan Savage

As a teenager, you considered becoming a priest—but changed your mind soon after you enrolled at ...

In this Jan. 3, 2013, file photo Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Springfield Catholic diocese, testifies during a Senate Executive committee hearing at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield Ill. Paprocki has banned the Catholic heads of the Illinois General Assembly, House Speaker Michael Madigan, Senate President John Cullerton, and any other state lawmakers who voted for statutory protections for abortion from receiving communion at Mass at churches in the Springfield diocese. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Illinois Bishop Threatens Prochoice Lawmakers

In June, Illinois governor Jay Robert “J. B.” Pritzker signed into law the Reproductive Health A...

FOIA Docs Reveal Anti-Abortion Appointee’s “Creepy” Preoccupation

A Freedom of Information Act request filed with the Department of Health and Human Services produced...

Activists hold green handkerchiefs, which symbolizes the abortion rights movement, during a rally to legalize abortion, outside the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina May 28, 2019. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian - RC1D8312AB10

The Battle for Abortion Rights Continues in Argentina

Though the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy (IVE) bill failed to pass Argentina’s Senate last fa...

SF Files Suit against HHS “Conscience” Rule as UCSF Nixes Affiliation with Catholic Group

The city of San Francisco filed suit against the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) af...

Crisis (Not Quite) Averted

Thank you for John Callaghan’s “HIV & AIDS: A Crisis On Pause.” The District of Columbia h...