text: The photo of Jenny Mertens and Jocelyn Collen is adorable.
  
  I often brood about how often women used to die in childbirth before modern medicine so staggeringly enhanced their life chances. The stark reality is that having sex could result in agonizing death (because Eve ate the baddie fruit, of course). So the suggestion that women would be especially attracted to Christianity's promise of eternal life is completely plausible.
  
  Meanwhile the United States has the highest maternal death rate in the developing world. It's actually rising. Naturally the culture of life is urgently on the case, right? Er...wrong.
  
  https://www.propublica.org/article/in-healthcare-suit-against-catholic-bishops-the-specter-of-an-early-defeat