The announcement of a new conscience protection rule May 2 protecting health care workers who object to abortion procedures on religious grounds was welcome news to U.S. Catholic bishops and the president of the Catholic Health Association.
Health Care
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
Explainer: Measles, vaccines, religious exemptions
Every parent wants happy and healthy children, but unless we literally live on a deserted island, we are “a part of the main” and owe an obligation to our neighbors to protect them as well as ourselves.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What Islam taught me about dying well
Accompaniment, not technology, might be the most caring thing we can offer those facing death.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A better choice than late-term abortion: perinatal hospice care
For the rare cases in which mothers consider late-term abortions to spare infants from pain, perinatal hospice programs offer a compassionate and life-affirming alternative.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
L.A. County Jail begins a mental health renovation
County supervisors approved $2.2 billion in June 2018 to build a replacement with the notable amendment that the new facility would be designed with a focus on mental health and rehabilitation.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Living and loving with cystic fibrosis in ‘Five Feet Apart’
For people living with this chronic illness seeing aspects of their daily life on screen can be startling and affirming.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholics welcome defeat of physician-assisted suicide bill in the Maryland Senate
“Because of your calls, emails and efforts, physician-assisted suicide will not be legalized in Maryland this year,” the Maryland Catholic Conference told the state’s Catholics in a message posted on its website March 28.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Call to end Affordable Care Act is ‘immoral,’ says C.H.A. president
For now, the Justice Department’s letter won’t change anything for those insured through the ACA, but the issue will likely gain political attention as it works its way through the courts.
Posted inFaith, News
Catholic parents should vaccinate their children, Vatican academy says
Catholic parents should vaccinate their children for the good of their children and the community said the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Posted inFaith, News
Court OKs Ohio law ending state funding of Planned Parenthood Medicaid services
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati ruled March 12 that the state of Ohio can stop funding Medicaid services provided by Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities.