Insights & Resources
La obstetra-ginecóloga Maryam Guiahi escribe sobre un paciente quien ella no puede atender, mostrando que los servicios de salud Católicos perjudic...
OB-GYN Maryam Guiahi tells the story of a patient whom she could not serve, showing that this discriminatory system disproportionately hurts Black ...
Medical sociologist Lori Freedman walks through the limitations of the U.S. bishops’ “Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care," w...
Investigative reporter Amy Littlefield has gathered a collection of stories by people denied care at Catholic facilities.
Investigative researcher Valerie Wexler uncovers jaw-dropping numbers that illustrate the financial benefits to the church when it battles in court...
Doctoral student Flora x. Tang further exposes racial violence in healthcare, and her chaplaincy work with Catholics having abortions unveils the s...
In an article exploring the wide-ranging impacts of these directives, CFC’s President Jamie L. Manson explores the excommunication of Sister of Mer...
Debuting on Hulu in May, Natalie Morales’ newest film, "Plan B," follows high school best friends Lupe and Sunny as they road trip across their hom...
With this issue of Conscience, we’re launching a new column that features the providers, activists, and advocates fighting for reproductive freedom...
Cherisse Scott, founder and CEO of SisterReach, shares her experience advocating for her son’s medical care in the face of a Catholic doctor’s obje...
Resources designed to help Catholic policymakers promote policies that ensure access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services.
A place for reproductive health care providers to share stories and reflections from the frontlines of abortion care.
US CATHOLIC VOTERS PLAYED A pivotal role in the 2020 election, helping lift Democrat Joe Biden to a narrow victory over President Donald Trump. In so doing, they sent a powerful message about support for abortion rights and access to reproductive healthcare among US Catholics today, as well as the limited role they believe US bishops should play in our electoral system.
Senior Catholic leaders in the United States and Canada, as well as anti- abortion groups, are raising ethical objections against promising COVID-19 vaccines manufactured using fetal cells derived from voluntary donations of post-abortion material.
THE US ROMAN CATHOLIC Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Millions of dollars went to about 40 dioceses that have paid hundreds of millions in settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.
As debates intensify in the public policy arena over the broader issues of religious liberty and reproductivefreedom, nowhere do the issues more personally collide than in Catholic healthcare facilities.
As debates intensify in the public policy arena over the broader issues of religious liberty and reproductivefreedom, nowhere do the issues more personally collide than in Catholic healthcare facilities.
