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Deirdre McQuade, former director of planning and information for the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in an undated photo.
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Catholic News Service
Longtime pro-life advocate Deirdre McQuade died April 21 after a bout with metastatic breast cancer. She was 53.
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The Gloria Purvis Podcast
Do vulnerable women, especially poor women of color, have the same choices available to them when determining their future and that of their unborn children?
Pope Francis greets a child during an audience with people who have autism at the Vatican on Nov. 22, 2014. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Matthew P. Schneider, L.C.
A new study suggests that M.R.I. brain scans on fetuses are able to predict diagnoses of autism. Both disability rights and pro-life activists should be concerned about the implications.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last December that California will be “a sanctuary for people seeking abortions.” (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file photo)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Ken Johnson-Mondragón
It is galling that the word “sanctuary” is being claimed by states promising greater access to abortion. But we can create true sanctuaries for both vulnerable women and the human beings in their wombs.
Activists Lauren Handy, left, and Terrisa Bukovinac chant slogans against legal abortion outside the Supreme Court in Washington Dec. 10, 2021.
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Catholic News Service
Lauren Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac said the fetuses are from a box of medical waste they got from the driver of a medical waste truck at an abortion clinic, and they claimed the fetuses looked like they were from late-stage abortions.
FaithShort Take
J.D. Long García
When talking about gun control policies, we must center our conversation around the sanctity of human life.