Just three of the top nine Republican candidates have said they would sign a federal abortion limit sought by a prominent pro-life group.
Pro-Life
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Ron DeSantis trades barbs with pro-life group over interview comments on abortion
Republican presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida traded barbs with a national pro-life group July 31 over comments he made on enacting abortion policy at the federal level.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Adoption, foster care and celebrating birth mothers: The pro-life movement’s post-Roe causes
After Dobbs, the pro-life movement must take the lead in supporting foster and adoptive parents—and in letting birth mothers know there is no stigma in giving a child a new chance at life.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
A Catholic culture of life must recognize miscarriage and pregnancy loss
Church teachings on life beginning at conception and human dignity overall require us to have a more sensitive approach to miscarriages and other forms of pregnancy loss.
Posted inFaith, News
Head of the the Pontifical Academy for Life affirms his opposition to euthanasia
“Personally,” the archbishop told his audience, “I would not assist with a suicide, but I understand that legal mediation may be the greatest common good concretely possible under the conditions in which we find ourselves.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
National pro-life group calls Trump campaign’s abortion position ‘morally indefensible’
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America pushed back against a statement by Donald Trump, saying instead that “Life is a matter of human rights, not states’ rights.”
Posted inFaith, News
Louisiana’s Catholic Democratic governor calls on his ‘pro-life state’ to abolish the death penalty
Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-La., called for an end to the death penalty in Louisiana during his final State of the State address in an impassioned call for lawmakers to adopt legislative proposals reflecting its identity as a “pro-life state.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Bishop Rhoades: ‘Reproductive justice’ lecture series with abortion doula a ‘scandal,’ ‘unworthy’ of University of Notre Dame
The decision “to provide an unanswered activist’s case that abortion is a tool of justice for the marginalized,” Bishop Kevin Rhoades wrote, “is a grave mistake in judgment that creates scandal.”
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
The case for making childbirth free
If there is one thing that pro-life and pro-choice advocates can agree upon, it’s that the cost of having a baby is significant and often a deterrent for mothers carrying their child to term.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I once defended Frank Pavone. Now I realize he groomed me, too.
What I experienced pales in comparison to what other young women say they endured at Mr. Pavone’s hand. But what makes grooming particularly insidious is how easily it allows a person to be manipulated.