Religion, Politics, Opposition To Vaccines

Why Some White Evangelical Republicans Are So Opposed To The COVID-19 Vaccine by Natalie Jackson.  FiveThirtyEight.  August 28, 2021.  

Confidence In Vaccine Rising: Resistance Still Persistent Among Republicans And White Evangelical Christians

 Confidence In Covid-19 Vaccination Keeps Rising Significantly In The U.S. But Pockets Of Resistance Remain, A Survey Shows by Jan Hoffman.  March 30, 2021.  

Supreme Court Bars Restrictions Imposed By Gov. Cuomo On Religious Services In New York

 Splitting 5 to 4, Supreme Court Backs Religious Challenge To Cuomo's Virus Shutdown Order by Adam Liptak.  The New York Times.  November 26, 2020.  

Midnight Ruling Shows Court Fissure On Public Health/Religion Issue by Adam Liptak.  The New York Times.  November 26, 2020.  

California Suggest Guidelines For Opening Churches

California Suggests No Singing And Shorter Services In Guidelines For Reopening Places Of Worship by Hollie Silverman.  CNN.  May 26, 2020.

Panoply Of Doomsday Scenarios Thrive During Coronavirus Pandemic

Coronavirus Is Bringing A Plague Of Dangerous Doomsday Predictions by John Blake.  CNN.  March 22, 2020.

Major Global Survey Tracks Attitudes To Religion and Vaccine Refusal

Religion And Vaccine Refusal  Are Linked.  We Have To Talk About It.  Julia Belluz.  Vox.  June 19, 2019.

New York Confronts Worst Measles Outbreak In Decades

New York Confronts Its Worst Measles Outbreak In Decades by Sharon Otterman.  The New York Times.  January 17, 2019. 

Religious Conservatives Impact Trump Administration Health Policies

Religious Conservatives' Ties To Trump Officials Pay Off In AIDS Policies, Funding by Marisa Taylor.  Kaiser Health News.  August 22, 2018. 

Some Find Limits On Procedures At Expanding Catholic Hospitals

As Catholic Hospitals Expand, So Do Limits On Some Procedures by Katie Hafner.  The New York Times.  August 10, 2018. 

Religion And Medical Treatment

'Inoculate Yourself With The Word Of God':  How Religion Can Limit Medical Treatment by Sandee LaMotte.  CNN.  February 7, 2017. 

Medical Care Denied On Grounds Of Religious Freedom

The White House Puts The Bible Before The Hippocratic Oath by The Editorial Board.  The New York Times. 

H.I.V Cases Surge In Russia: Stigma, Politics, Top-Down Rule, Lack Of Prevention, Traditional Values, Fail to Stop An Epidemic

H.I.V. Cases Surpass A Million In Russia, But Little Is Done by Neil MacFarquhar.  The New York Times.  December 28, 2016.

Diverse Viewpoints On Legal Challenge To Obamacare Contraceptive Coverage Mandate: Supreme Court To Hear Case This Week

Viewpoints On Challenge To Contraceptive Coverage Mandate.  Kaiser Health News.  March 24, 2014.
This is a tremendously important case on so many levels including health, religion, and legal.

At The Intersection of Basic Rights, The Health Care Law, And Women's Medical Decisions, Supreme Court Takes Contraception Cases

Justices To Hear Contraception Cases Challenging Health Law by Adam Liptak.  The New York Times.  November 26, 2013.

(1)  Many religious groups are __________ from the law's requirements for contraception coverage.

(2)  However, the administration argues that commercial corporations could not ______________ to opt out of compliance with the law.

(3)  Hobby Lobby argued before the Ten Circuit that compelled coverage for drugs and devices that can prevent embryos from ________________________ would make the company complicit in ______________.

(4)  The Tenth Circuit ruled that Hobby Lobby was a _________ under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.

(5)  What is the relationship between this controversy and the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court?

Largest Gathering in Human History Is Laboratory For Public Health Researchers

Can Big Data From Epic Indian Pilgrimage Help Save Lives?  by Somini Sengupta.  The New York Times.  February 8, 2013.

More Than Two Dozen Killed In Kumbh Mela Stampede by Raksha Kumar, Heather Timmons, and Malavika Vyawahare.  The New York Times.  February 10, 2013.

The first article deals with a Harvard public health team who are taking advantage of the largest gathering of human-kind in the history of the world to track illnesses and create the largest public health data set ever among a transient population.  The festival is expected to draw more than 100 million people.

The second article focuses on deaths that resulted from a stampede of the masses at Kumbh Mela Hindu religious festival.