--- title: Religion date: 2023-07-24T16:30:00-04:00 canonical_url: "https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/topic/religion" section: Blog Categories --- [Donate](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/donate) [From the Archives of Our Bodies, Our Blog](/blog)# Religion [## When Did Women's Health Become a Divisive Political Issue Instead of a Private Medical One?](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/a-womans-right-know)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/a-womans-right-know) [![A Womans Right to Know by Carol Roye](data:image/png;base64,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)Read](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/a-womans-right-know) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/a-womans-right-know) [## Savita Halappanavar's Death from Being Denied an Abortion Leads to Shame and Searching](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/savita-halappanavars-death-from-being-denied-an-abortion-leads-to-shame-and-searching)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/savita-halappanavars-death-from-being-denied-an-abortion-leads-to-shame-and-searching) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/savita-halappanavars-death-from-being-denied-an-abortion-leads-to-shame-and-searching) [## Reading Religion and the Body and Private Bodies, Public Texts](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/reading-religion-and-the-body-and-private-bodies-public-texts)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/reading-religion-and-the-body-and-private-bodies-public-texts) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/reading-religion-and-the-body-and-private-bodies-public-texts) [## Now, About Planned Parenthood and the Bishops …](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/now-about-planned-parenthood-and-the-bishops)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/now-about-planned-parenthood-and-the-bishops) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/now-about-planned-parenthood-and-the-bishops) [## Sisters of St. Joseph Punished for Supporting Health Care Reform Legislation](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/sisters-of-st-joseph-punished-for-supporting-health-care-reform-legislation)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/sisters-of-st-joseph-punished-for-supporting-health-care-reform-legislation) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/sisters-of-st-joseph-punished-for-supporting-health-care-reform-legislation) [## Double Dose: Bed Commercial Draws Praise from Home Birth Activists; Meet Disney's New Princess; $10 million if You Can Transform Health Care; Quiverfull Movement Takes Root ...](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/double-dose-bed-commercial-draws-praise-from-home-birth-activists-meet-disneys-new-princess-10-million-if-you-can-transform-health-care-quiverfull-movement-takes-root)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/double-dose-bed-commercial-draws-praise-from-home-birth-activists-meet-disneys-new-princess-10-million-if-you-can-transform-health-care-quiverfull-movement-takes-root) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/double-dose-bed-commercial-draws-praise-from-home-birth-activists-meet-disneys-new-princess-10-million-if-you-can-transform-health-care-quiverfull-movement-takes-root) [## Healthy Information Takes a Holiday](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/healthy-information-takes-a-holiday)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/healthy-information-takes-a-holiday) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/healthy-information-takes-a-holiday) [## Pledges and Power: At Purity Balls, Fathers Hold the Key](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/pledges-and-power-at-purity-balls-fathers-hol)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/pledges-and-power-at-purity-balls-fathers-hol) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/pledges-and-power-at-purity-balls-fathers-hol) [## Double Dose: Sexism in the ICU; Time Spent On Housework Linked to Women's Pay; Paging Dr. Cliche; Ricki Lake's Documentary on Birth - The New "Inconvenient Truth"?](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/double-dose-sexism-in-the-icu-time-spent-on-h)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/double-dose-sexism-in-the-icu-time-spent-on-h) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/double-dose-sexism-in-the-icu-time-spent-on-h) [## Double Dose: Photos of Nursing Babies Deleted by Facebook; Few LGBT Characters on TV; New Studies on Black Women and Maternal Health](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/double-dose-photos-of-nursing-babies-deleted)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/double-dose-photos-of-nursing-babies-deleted) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/double-dose-photos-of-nursing-babies-deleted) [## Double Dose: Reports from BlogHer, Welcome Back to The Sponge, And a Slow Recovery in New Orleans Goes Even Slower Without Hospitals](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/double-dose-reports-from-blogher-welcome-back)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/double-dose-reports-from-blogher-welcome-back) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/double-dose-reports-from-blogher-welcome-back) [## Life v. Dogma: Lay Teachers and Catholic Schools](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/life-v-dogma-lay-teachers-and-catholic-school)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/life-v-dogma-lay-teachers-and-catholic-school) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/life-v-dogma-lay-teachers-and-catholic-school) [## Washington Post Hosts Live Online Discussion on Access to Abortions in Mexico](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/washington-post-hosts-live-online-discussion)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/washington-post-hosts-live-online-discussion) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/washington-post-hosts-live-online-discussion) [## Patching Up the "Fall": Reverend Says Homosexuality is Genetic, Blames it on Adam & Eve](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/patching-up-the-fall-reverend-says-homosexual)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/patching-up-the-fall-reverend-says-homosexual) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/patching-up-the-fall-reverend-says-homosexual) [## Jesus Would be a Radical Feminist](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/jesus-would-be-a-radical-feminist)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/jesus-would-be-a-radical-feminist) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/jesus-would-be-a-radical-feminist) [## International Women's Day](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/international-womens-day)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/international-womens-day) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/international-womens-day) [## Woman Jailed in Tampa After Reporting Rape](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/woman-jailed-in-tampa-after-reporting-rape)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/woman-jailed-in-tampa-after-reporting-rape) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/woman-jailed-in-tampa-after-reporting-rape) [## Plan B for Plan B?](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/plan-b-for-plan-b)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/plan-b-for-plan-b) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/plan-b-for-plan-b) [## Giving Birth in Iraq - A Father's Perspective](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/giving-birth-in-iraq-a-fathers-perspective)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/giving-birth-in-iraq-a-fathers-perspective) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/giving-birth-in-iraq-a-fathers-perspective) [## 21 Leaders for the 21st Century](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/21-leaders-for-the-21st-century)Read [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/21-leaders-for-the-21st-century) [](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/21-leaders-for-the-21st-century) ![](/assets/img/monogram.webp)### *Why You Can* **Trust Us** - We rigorously evaluate all content - We embrace a reproductive justice framework - We don’t accept ads or sell products - We reject funding from the pharmaceutical industry - We counter misinformation and disinformation - We address the social, political, and economic factors that affect health and sexuality [read more](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/why-you-can-trust-us) Share [](javascript:void();)[](javascript:void();)[](javascript:void();)[](javascript:void();)