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Mizuko Kuyo is a Japanese Buddhist ceremony that focuses on a deceased fetus or stillborn child. This ceremony was originally developed to honor Jizo…
Fetal propitiatory rites--BuddhismAbortionFetusStillbirthBuddhismEmmett McLoughlin wrote People's Padre: An Autobiography, based on his experiences as a Roman Catholic priest advocating for the health of people in…
LiteratureBirth control clinicsAbortionCatholic ChurchReproductive RightsAs various societies around the world began legalizing abortive procedures or liberalizing government stances on abortion, the Roman Catholic Church'…
LiteraturereligionReproductionCatholicismAbortionPope Gregory XIV, born Nicolo Sfondrati, reversed the bull of Pope Sixtus V, Effraenatum, under which an abortion at any time of gestation can be…
PeoplereligionReproductionBiographyCatholicismHoratio Robinson Storer was a surgeon and anti-abortion activist in the 1800s who worked in the field of women’s reproductive health and led the…
PeopleAbortionAbortion servicesPro-life movementPro-life movement--United States