Monday's News & Ideas - 5/9/2022

White evangelicals twice as likely to want to ban abortion
Christianity Today: Ahead of a possible decision to rescind Roe v. Wade, Pew Research finds most Americans and most believers hold convictions with exceptions.
Pew Research Center: America’s abortion quandary

The end of Roe and the assault on trans people — fail to see the bigger picture and we’ll never be free
Religion Dispatches: There is a broader campaign to deny people’s right to bodily autonomy. Until we fully grapple with that truth, we both badly underestimate the danger and inhibit the radical solidarity that will get us free.

Apology, 800 years on, for laws that expelled Jews from England
The Guardian: Church service to mark eight centuries since Synod of Oxford brings together chief rabbi, senior Anglicans and Roman Catholic bishop.

Highly religious Americans more skeptical of human enhancements such as brain implants, gene editing
Pew Research Center: Many Americans, especially those who are highly religious and identify with certain Christian traditions, express discomfort with these possibilities.

Jewish World War II veterans get new headstones with Stars of David*
The Washington Post: Operation Benjamin works to correct the headstones of hundreds of Jewish soldiers who died in World Wars I and II.

The Spark

‘Mom brain’ isn’t a joke
When our culture makes fun of mothers’ forgetfulness,* it is abdicating responsibility for the overwork women are experiencing and its effects on their health, The Atlantic says.

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