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Pope Francis officially dropped his much-anticipated encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si,” Thursday, and it has a lot to say: about man’s responsibility to care for creation, about the limits of the market and technology’s ability to solve our environmental problems, even about the importance of gender differences (I’ll leave the analysis of that one to someone else).

But despite conservative critics’ suggestion that the pope “leave the science to the scientists,” the 138-page document is notable precisely because it gets the science right: the pope, who does in fact have scientific training, deftly summarizes experts’ understanding of climate change in two concise paragraphs — and even goes so far as to call out specific myths used by climate deniers to cast doubt on the science.

This picture was taken the very morning my child was born. I chose if to have children, when to have children, with whom to have children, how to deliver them. Those were some most important choices in my life. And I loved making them.  

Even though it was my right to make those choices, we still live in a world where they felt like a privilege. 

Everyday I support women to have safe abortions and help them overcome various obstacles to abortion care. I am proud of my work.  

Everyday I witness suffering because the right to decide if and when to become a parent is taken away from so many people. In many countries the governments have rather people lose their health and lives than give them access to safe abortion. 

I will always continue to fight for abortion access with equal passion as when I made the choice to become a mother. 

I am a mother, I am a feminist, I fight for abortion rights, I am pro-choice. 

Zoe Saldana’s Husband Takes Her Name, Doesn’t Care What You Think

Zoe Saldana’s husband doesn’t “give a sheet” what people say about his decision to take the actress’ last name.

The “Guardians of The Galaxy” star sits beaming on the cover of the July issue of InStyle magazine, in which she reveals how Italian artist Marco Perego took her name after the two secretly married in the summer of 2013. Perego, it turns out, made the progressive decision in spite of his wife’s doubts.