How Overturning Roe Will Impact More Than Just Abortions
Conservatives often attack reproductive freedom, but the American Humanist Association (AHA) was still outraged at the Supreme Court’s leaked draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. In our statement on the May 2,... Read More
The Abortion Debate Isn’t About Life; It’s About Control
If you were in the lobby of a certain Midwest university’s student center on a cold evening in January 2005, waiting for the bus to take you downtown, you would see a wide-eyed eighteen-year-old standing... Read More
What Would a Humanist Do? Tough and Necessary Conversations
When you are a humanist from a religious family, the issue of abortion rights and reproductive healthcare can be a deeply divisive one. In today’s What Would a Humanist Do? column, an American Humanist Association... Read More
Performing a Wiccan Wedding: A Change in Perspective
This article is reprinted from the blog Deep Calls I stopped in a church parking lot and got off the motorcycle to stretch my legs and get my bearings. A car pulled up beside me... Read More
Support Foster Kids: Join AHA for Our 2022 Lobby Day
After an incredibly successful virtual lobby day last summer, the American Humanist Association has partnered with American Atheists to co-host our 2022 Virtual Lobby Day. Together, we are doubling the size of the event so... Read More
Our Species’ Success and the Humanist Worldview
It’s well documented and very well understood that no species can remain biologically or socially successful if it goes extinct. This seems obvious, at least to me anyway; the only way an organism survives is... Read More
American Architects of the UK Humanist Movement
On May 6, 1863, an American abolitionist mounted the platform at South Place Chapel, Finsbury, a London venue long home to religious dissenters and political radicals. Over the following months, he—then still a Unitarian clergyman—would... Read More