After watering down their anti-abortion commitments in their party platform, can Donald Trump’s GOP hold on to the pro-life vote?
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Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pro-life activists react to GOP platform change on abortion at Trump’s direction
Pro-life activists are pushing back against the Republican Party’s new, Trump-directed platform, which appears to soften the party’s stance on abortion.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
‘Brain death’ and organ donation as culture war issues
In response to an article in our June issue, several physicians and ethicists say there are serious questions about the accuracy of determining brain death under the current criteria.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
There will be no perfect abortion law. But the pro-life movement can still make progress.
What is needed, far more than a perfect abortion law, is a clear focus on the moral failure of a society in which abortion rates are rising rather than falling, in which too many women feel afraid, unable or unwilling to carry pregnancies to term and welcome new life into the world.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Report: Pro-life advocates on the future of the movement after Dobbs
Efforts to restrict abortion have met with mixed results. So what should be the focus of the pro-life movement going forward?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Supreme Court unanimously dismisses challenge to abortion drug mifepristone
The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed a challenge against an abortion pill due to a “lack of legal standing” in the lawsuit against the drug.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
‘Juno’ is neither a pro-life or a pro-choice movie
It would be an exaggeration to call “Juno” pro-life, but it is encouraging to see a popular film diverge from the familiar culture war battle lines.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis: Selfishness—not too many babies—is the root cause of the world’s problems
“Human life is not a problem, it is a gift,” said Pope Francis at a meeting on Italy’s longtime decline in births and population growth on May 10. “The problem is not how many of us there are in the world, but what kind of world we are building.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The repeal of Arizona’s abortion ban is more than a political loss
Directly ending human life—at any stage—tears the metaphysical tapestry of existence.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
New Vatican doc ‘Dignitas Infinita’: What it says on gender theory, surrogacy, poverty and more
The declaration from the Vatican goes beyond the focus on single issues and throws a spotlight on the much broader field of violations of human dignity.