How Birth Control Became Part of America’s Midcentury Protestant Family Values

(ANALYSIS) Mother’s Day seems like a strange time to celebrate birth control, which, on its most basic level, is about helping people to not become mothers — or not become mothers again.

Sacrifice And Rituals: Rethinking Menstruation In Chinese Buddhism

(ANALYSIS) Religious traditions across cultures have often treated menstruation and childbirth as sources of ritual impurity. In Chinese Buddhism, the “Blood Bowl Scripture” condemned women to “Blood Pond Hell.” Today, women reinterpret these beliefs, emphasizing maternal sacrifice, agency and alternative understandings of female bodies.

Analysis, Asia, Buddhism, China, Culture, Health, History, Science, Society, Women, women, NewsMegan BrysonFebruary 11, 2026Megan Bryson, China, Buddhism, women, analysis, religion, motherhood, menstruation, health, science, Asia, Secondary featureComment

Crossroads Podcast: La Leche League Goes Woke And Embraces ‘Chestfeeding’

This would be a shock to the countercultural Catholic matriarchs who birthed this influential network.

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