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Marie Hause, Heather Burtman and Victorian Reynolds Farmer discuss contraception and the impact that lack of access to it has on women around the world.
Knowing
- Background for this episode: a seminar led by Dr. Pauline Muchina
- Our personal experiences with contraception and how it is discussed in religious settings
- Types of contraception, as described in Jennell Williams Paris, Birth Control for Christians (2003)
Reading
- Chapter 4 from the 2016 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) State of the World Population report
- US’s defunding of UNFPA (UNFPA statement in response, work done by the UNFPA)
- What’s at stake
- Two imagined timelines for a woman’s life
- Religious Institute, “An Open Letter to Religious Leaders on Family Planning” (2014)
- Common ground for faith perspectives on family planning
- Need for specificity in advocating from holy texts
Passing On
- Rachel Held Evans, “Privilege and the Pill” (28 January 2014)
- Friends of the UNFPA petition
- Selena Simmons-Duffin, “Where the Need Is: Tackling Teen Pregnancy with a Midwife at School” (NPR, 11 June 2018)
- Brenda Davis, Sister: An Intimate Portrait of a Global Crisis (2012)
Photo Credit: BruceBlaus, Wikimedia Commons
