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Religious Trauma Syndrome: How organized religion can lead to mental health problems

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Here’s why some progressives are tearing each other apart

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Why we need #MeToo now

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Evangelical Christianity is facing a political crisis

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Roy Moore lost because Christians are better than the Bible

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Alabama conservatives are right: Roy Moore’s behavior is perfectly biblical — and that’s the problem

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Did you catch this hidden theme in “The Handmaid’s Tale”?

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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2015, file photo, Planned Parenthood supporters rally for women's access to reproductive health care on "National Pink Out Day'' at Los Angeles City Hall. One of President-elect Donald Trump’s first, and defining, acts next year could come on Republican legislation to cut off taxpayer money from Planned Parenthood. Trump sent mixed signals during the campaign about the 100-year-old organization which provides birth control, abortions and various women's health services. He said "millions of women are helped by Planned Parenthood," but also endorsed efforts to defund it. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File) (AP)

Protection lasts longer than the presidency: 9 ways IUDs could help women in the Trump era

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The movement’s fakers: Anti-abortion’s favorite propaganda techniques, debunked

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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2016, file photo, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito acquires a blood meal on the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The CDC is working with Florida health officials to investigate what could be the first Zika infection from a mosquito bite in the continental United States. They said Tuesday, July 19, 2016, lab tests confirm a person in the Miami area is infected with the Zika virus, and there may not be any connection to someone traveling outside the country. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File) (AP)

Zika on steroids: How the Christian Right’s sex hangups turn Zika into a bigger crisis

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Evangelicals believe in Trump: Their devotion to a bigoted bully actually makes perfect sense

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The religious right’s policing of sex robs pleasure from the underprivileged

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Greed, inequality, abortion: The powerful take what they can, leave mothers with nothing

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“Male contraceptive options haven’t changed since Elvis was thin”: These revolutionary alternatives to condoms are dragging male birth control into the 21st century

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Donald Trump’s big f*ck you: This is what Trump and Ted Cruz are really saying to women when they talk abortion

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Evangelicals are hurting the GOP: The movement is now synonymous with bigotry and abject stupidity

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“The intent is to make this 5- to 10-minute abortion procedure seem dangerous”: The plaintiff in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt on defending her Texas clinics all the way to the Supreme Court

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Zika & family planning: Will Latin American Catholics really have to choose between the well-being of their children and the well-being of their souls?

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“The Zika virus is a new ballgame”: This veteran adman knows how to get people to use condoms in the virus plague areas

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Brave new world: Shouldn’t we all be fighting for men’s right to decide the fate of frozen embryos formed from their DNA?

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Sex for “mere pleasure”? Shame on you! — 15 sexual hang-ups we can blame on the Catholic Church

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Defy “compulsory silence”: To celebrate the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, women are speaking out about their abortion experiences

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God as the original terrorist: 6 ways the Bible condones horrific acts of brutality

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Is Jesus’ birth worth celebrating? The dark subtext of the nativity scene

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