Gary Bauer and Daniel Allott at USA Today: Legally, a woman’s reproductive decisions are hers alone. But outside the courtroom, men — boyfriends and husbands — hold a lot of influence over those decisions. And that influence often manifests itself violently. Consider cases from this year . . . Beyond these recent cases, there is evidence that many men resort to intimidation and violence to coerce women they’ve impregnated into aborting . . .
Deseret News: About half of the LGBT adults surveyed (48 percent) say they have no religious affiliation, compared with 20 percent of the general public, according to the Pew Research Center, and those who are religious generally attend worship services less often and attach less importance to their faith than do other religiously affiliated adults.
Chris Geidner at Buzzfeed: Many outcomes are possible in the challenges to California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act that are due to be decided by the justices in the coming weeks. A complex path got the cases — and the country — to a moment of waiting.