While providing quality sex education to young people is certainly important, more emphasis needs to be put on diversity training for healthcare providers and better legal protections for mothers of color so that they cannot be denied consent during treatment and labor.
This Inland Journal episode examines the purity culture. That’s the movement whereby unmarried, but committed couples agree to stay sexually pure until they take their vows.
While there is much pushback against these more progressive ideas about sexuality, voices across the political spectrum agree that the ways purity has been promoted have often been harmful.
With the widespread passage of such bills and efforts to have Roe v. Wade overturned by the now conservative-majority Supreme Court, it is worth considering the history of Jewish and Christian teachings on abortion and how it has become such a divisive issue.
Now that we have explored many aspects of biblical interpretation, it is time to address the final question in this series: How can we apply the Bible to our lives today?