pregnant women

Quilting an End to AIDS

Carrie Adams 12-01-2011
Carrie Adams's square in the (2015)QUILT for an HIV/AIDS free generation.

Carrie Adams's square in the (2015)QUILT for an HIV/AIDS free generation.

ONE and (RED) have started a community art project of sorts, known as the (2015)QUILT. Driven by the goal to have an HIV/AIDS free generation by 2015, ONE and (RED) are focusing on the 1,000 babies born every day to mothers who have HIV/AIDS. The crux is this: get the 1.4 million pregnant women who are HIV positive on meds that cost $0.40 a day (you read that correctly), 98 percent of their babies won’t have HIV/AIDS transferred to them, and soon enough, we have a healthy generation. How easy does that sound?

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In the Wake of Japan Disaster, Must We Accept Nuclear Power?

Rose Marie Berger 3-15-2011
The U.S. Navy reported today that it had detected low levels of airborne radiation at the Yokosuka and Atsugi bases, about 200 miles to the north of the Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactors.
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The Inevitable Results of War: Sins as Well as Crimes

Arthur Waskow 4-08-2010
The end of Passover is said to mark the anniversary of the moment when Pharaoh's imperial horse-chariot army met disaster in the Red Sea.
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A Flawed Step Forward on Health-Care Reform

Jim Wallis 3-19-2010

We all know how much the media love conflict, and they have fallen in love with the health-care debate. Yesterday's New York Times story on the final House vote expected this weekend simply said, "Showdown Near." That says it all about the gunfight at the O.K.

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Is George W. Bush Pro-Life? Is Any Politician?

John Gehring 2-05-2010

Former President George W. Bush receives a pro-life award this weekend from Legatus, an organization of Catholic business professionals.

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Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of our Country

Jim Wallis 9-29-2009
With an issue like health, deeply personal, but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debat
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Abortion Common Ground

Jim Wallis 7-31-2009
In recent days, it seems that the Religious Right is trying everything they can to derail the health-care reform our country so desperately needs.
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How to Win a Culture War

Jim Wallis 7-23-2009
Want to know how to win a culture war? Don't fight one. The soul of our nation has been marred from a perpetual state of culture war.
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Obama's Catholic Moment

John Gehring 5-23-2009
Against the backdrop of protest and spectacle that threatened to overshadow graduation at the University of Notre Dame last week, President Obama delivered a graceful commencement address that stan
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Challenging Obama on Abortion

Glen H. Stassen 5-18-2009

This is a challenge to President Obama and Congress written in light of his commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame.

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What Makes Liberals and Conservatives Angry? Abortion Reduction

John Gehring 3-25-2009
When both the Left and Right begin sharpening their knives, it means you are on to something.
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SCHIP: Finally, a Victory for Children's Healthcare

Elizabeth Denlinger Reaves 2-03-2009
The 111th Congress is turning out to be a bit more exciting than the 110th, with members tackling tough issues with a vigor that was in short supply in 2008.
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