Catholics, Cardinal Farrell said, must have a more “pastoral orientation” to fulfill the Christian obligation to “take care of another in a loving and caring manner in accordance with our view of human life: that every man and every woman is created in the image and likeness of God.”
Pro-Life
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Roe v. Wade has made abortion politics impossible. It needs to be challenged.
The ongoing political crisis is the persistent failure of Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood to settle the abortion question and the failure of the Supreme Court to offer any sign that these cases ever will.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
How Trump is able to exploit the abortion issue, and why that’s bad for everyone
President Trump is leveraging the failure of the pro-choice movement to acknowledge Americans’ moral qualms about abortion.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
What does ‘abortion’ mean? Some states have very different answers
Medical “advances” have made the simple act of human reproduction bafflingly complex, and inconsistent vocabulary adds to the difficulty of debating pro-life issues. Here is a guide to essential terms.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Never Look Away’ is not your usual pro-life film. But it’s now available in theaters.
In ‘Never Look Away,’ the murderous eugenicist and the abortionist, the Nazi and the Communist, become one.
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 inArts & Culture, Film
Pro-life or pro-choice, “Unplanned” will get under your skin.
The new movie tells the true story of a Planned Parenthood clinic director turned pro-life activist.
Posted inFaith, News
Missouri House OKs fetal heartbeat bill restricting abortion
The Missouri House of Representatives Feb. 27 passed the Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act, an omnibus bill that bans abortion when the heartbeat of an unborn child can be detected.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
After new abortion laws, what the pro-life movement needs to learn from children’s hospitals
Babies are experts at instructing us in the preciousness of human life. Our advocacy for the unborn will be most effective when we allow it make us more compassionate and more humane.
Posted inFaith, News
Kentucky bishops voice approval for bill that protects pregnant women
As legislators in multiple states push hard to expand access to abortion, claiming that doing so will give women the control they need over their lives, some Kentucky lawmakers are taking a different tack.