As the pro-life movement prepares for the possibility of a post-Roe America, there are several lessons it can learn from Hamer’s advocacy and the civil rights movement.
Abortion
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Communion war returns with dueling op-eds by Las Vegas bishop and pro-choice Catholic politician
Bishop George L. Thomas said he would not ask priests to police the Communion line but asked pro-choice politicians to voluntarily “refrain from the reception of Holy Communion while holding public office.”
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Does the March for Life have a white supremacy problem?
March for Life organizers would do well to issue strong disavowals beforehand in anticipation of attempts by white supremacists to co-opt its message.
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The Catholics for Choice basilica stunt was shocking. Sacrilege often is.
It is appalling to see an organization that claims to be Catholic project pro-abortion messaging onto a structure that celebrates the conception of the Mother of God. What am I supposed to take from this?
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Group projects pro-choice messages on national basilica, the latest targeting of Catholic worship spaces over abortion
With tens of thousands of anti-abortion protesters gathered for the annual March for Life, Catholics for Choice projected pro-abortion messages on the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
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Poll: Majority support legal limits on abortion, oppose taxpayer funding
A new Knights of Columbus/Marist Poll shows that 71% of Americans support legal limits on abortion and a majority of Americans — 54% — oppose taxpayer funding of abortion.
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Pro-life and pro-Black: Meet a woman who’s changing the conversation about racism and abortion
Gloria Purvis and Cherilyn Holloway, the founder of Pro-Black Pro-Life, discuss how the voices of Black people are often overlooked or tokenized within the pro-life movement.
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Pro-life movement needs to decouple from Donald Trump: panelists discuss the future of post-Roe abortion politics
The future of the pro-life movement may depend on a move away from partisan politics. That was one conclusion of an online panel discussion on “Pro-life Movement at a Crossroads: Dobbs and a Divided Society.”
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On abortion, Catholics—including politicians—can’t reduce the issue to a question of ‘choice’
Choice alone cannot be a sufficient moral framework for thinking about abortion because more than one human life is at stake.
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March for Life still on this year despite omicron surge — but expect to mask up
There is considerable anticipation that this year’s march could be the last one with the Roe v. Wade decision hanging in the balance before the Supreme Court.