Just five states, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas, accounted for all U.S. executions in 2016.

The March for Life, the annual gathering of pro-life activists, clergy and civic leaders, will take place in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 27.

States are prohibited from placing an “undue burden” on pre-viability abortions, but may prohibit post-viability abortions.

The new procedures are intended to fix problems linked to mitochondria, the energy-producing structures outside a cell's nucleus.

State lawmakers passed a measure to ban abortions in the state after 20 weeks after approving legislation that would ban abortions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

The bishop said contemporary society was "showered with random data" and often showed a "frightening superficiality towards moral issues."