The Texas Heartbeat Act is an extraordinary departure from legal norms. The law empowers “any person,” other than a government official, to sue everyone involved in performing an abortion after the detection of fetal “cardiac activity.”
Abortion
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San Francisco archbishop asks Catholics to fast and pray for Nancy Pelosi over her abortion stance
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco is asking “all Catholics and others of goodwill” to join a prayer and fasting campaign for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic Democrat who supports legal abortion.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholic lawmakers can’t justify voting for the Democrats’ new abortion bill
In some cases, the best Catholic morality doesn’t translate to the best public laws. But the Women’s Health Protection Act goes beyond the pale.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Pope Francis told bishops to shepherd pro-choice politicians ‘with God’s style.’ What does that mean in practice?
Pope Francis has a broad—and brave—vision of what being a pastor means, writes Sam Sawyer, S.J. And that vision has room for bishops to disagree with each other about the best way forward.
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Early Takeaways: Pope Francis on Biden, Bishops, Abortion and Communion
The hosts of “Jesuitical,” Ashley McKinless and Zac Davis, discuss Pope Francis’ advice to bishops deciding whether or not to deny Communion to politicians who support abortion.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis: ‘I have never denied Communion to anyone.’
It was a significant revelation from Pope Francis, coming at a time when a group of bishops in the United States are pushing to deny Communion to pro-choice politicians, including President Joe Biden.
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At Catholic Prayer Breakfast, bishop says Pope Pius XI predicted ‘woke-ism’
This year’s National Catholic Prayer Breakfast had no political speakers and only a small political contingent in attendance, and there was little mention of an upcoming Supreme Court case involving a Mississippi abortion ban.
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Abortion is integral to upholding systems that oppress women. That’s why I support the new Texas law.
Rebuilding our world to embrace femaleness, our way of being, as the model of perfection for women would be just and right, writes Gloria Purvis. Abortion thwarts this renewal.
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The Machiavellian tactics of the Texas abortion law that pro-lifers may come to regret
The Texas abortion law wins a battle in the culture war but at what cost?
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A challenge to Planned Parenthood in Texas: Don’t shut down. Support women with life-affirming prenatal care.
If Planned Parenthood does not trust crisis pregnancy centers, the abortion Goliath should beat the centers at their own game.