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There’s a new backlash, but this time it’s not against women’s progress, but against the loss of women’s rights and their own personhood. Since Roe was overturned, at least three states have blocked new abortion bans, and 16 more have strengthened existing pro-statutes with new protections.

The Israel-Hamas war, along with the rise in antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents in the U.S. and around the globe, were named the top international and domestic religion stories of 2023 by members of the Religion News Association.

It is said that time seems to move faster as we get older. In some ways, I think that has been true for me. I wake up on a Jan. 1 and the next thing I know we are celebrating New Year’s Eve. But 2022 has not moved so quickly. It has seemed interminable.

Abortion opponents marking the huge annual March for Life in Washington on Thursday (Jan. 22) and anticipating legislative gains by a Republican-dominated Congress were thrown into disarray after GOP leaders unexpectedly withdrew an anti-abortion bill that had been seen as a done deal.

This week marks the 41st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which made abortions legal.

Mary Wissink breezed through the door after school on Jan. 22, 1973, distracted with thoughts of cars and boys, until she noticed an unusual enthusiastic air about her mother.

On Sunday afternoon hundreds of anti-abortion advocates gathered at Fourth Memorial Church, as they have for 41 years, to pray for the country to turn from its immoral ways and to urge Christians to keep on in the fight against abortion.