The estimated crowd of 18,000 came from the Washington area and from across the country and were joined by young adults from Sydney on their way to World Youth Day in Panama.
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Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Study finds immigration crackdowns harm unborn children
The study found Latina immigrant women in Arizona who were pregnant during the contentious S.B. 1070 passage had babies with lower birthweight compared with those in prior years. Average birth weights did not decrease among U.S.-born white, black or Latina women during the same time.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
How the New Wave Feminists are changing the conversation around abortion
This week’s guest is Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa, founder of New Wave Feminists, a pro-life feminist organization dedicated to changing the divisive language surrounding the abortion debate.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What The New York Times gets wrong about the abortion debate
The extensive New York Times series in support of legal abortion unfolds as if the last 46 years of the abortion debate following Roe v. Wade never happened and did not need to.
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Poll: 75 percent of adults want restrictions on abortion
In a recent Marist College survey, 61% of respondents who identify as “pro-choice” were not against some restrictions concerning abortion. The poll, taken in January 2019, is an annual event sponsored by the Knights of Columbus detailing Americans’ views in the run-up to the yearly March for Life, held in Washington, D.C.
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Shutdown won’t deter crowds from marching for life in nation’s capital
“We plan to march even if the government shutdown is not yet resolved,” declares the March for Life website, marchforlife.org. “We have marched for 45 years and will march again this year to end the human rights abuse of abortion.”
Posted inInterviews, Politics & Society
Abby Johnson worked at Planned Parenthood. Now she is a leader of the pro-life movement.
“Seeing a child that young fight and struggle against the abortion instrument led me to re-evaluate what I believed and had been told was true.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Father James Martin: Why I Am Pro-Life
The longer I live, the more I grow in awe of God’s creative activity and in reverence for God’s creation.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
The pro-life movement has always been pro-women. Our priorities should reflect that.
The priority given to Supreme Court nominations has left the movement vulnerable to being reduced to the role of supporting player within an overall conservative political agenda.
Posted inFaith, News
Are robots pro-life? The Vatican investigates.
Even though today’s modern tools and technologies are hardly human, the Pontifical Academy for Life is zeroing in on the world of robots and machines powered by artificial intelligence.