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Northern Ireland bishops oppose UK plan to impose abortion regime

Mar 23, 2021

Northern Ireland’s Catholic bishops say they are “deeply concerned” over plans of the London government to force the Northern Ireland Minister of Health to implement “some of the most extreme and liberal abortion services on these islands.”

By Charles Collins

Each Catholic culture brews a controversy made to order

Mar 21, 2021

Catholic experience is a constant interplay between the universal and the local, a few basic constants refracted and lived out in a myriad of different milieu.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Critics of new HHS head raise concerns over abortion, religious liberty

Mar 20, 2021

Once he is sworn in, Xavier Becerra, California’s former attorney general and a former member of Congress, becomes the first Latino to be secretary of the U.S. Department of health and Human Services.

By Catholic News Service

Virginia bishops say allowing unlimited abortion is ‘deplorable policy’

Mar 17, 2021

By signing a measure that inserts abortion without limits into Virginia’s health benefits exchange, Gov. Ralph Northam “has crossed yet another tragic threshold,” said the heads of the state’s two Catholic dioceses.

By Catholic News Service

Northern Ireland: Legislators vote to stop abortions of disabled fetuses

Mar 17, 2021

Politicians in Northern Ireland voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill to prevent the late-term abortions of babies with disabilities.

By Simon Caldwell

Pro-life bills abound; their fate in court is unknown

Mar 14, 2021

At an intense pace, lawmakers in Republican-governed states are considering an array of tough anti-abortion restrictions they hope might reach the Supreme Court and win approval from its conservative majority, overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a nationwide right to abortion.

By David Crary and Iris Samuels

Bishops lament lack of protections against taxpayer-funded abortion in COVID relief package

Mar 11, 2021

Hours after the Biden administration’s COVID-19 relief plan passed Wednesday, several U.S. Bishops Conference chairmen called it “unconscionable” that the bill didn’t include protections against taxpayer funding of abortion.

By John Lavenburg

The arduous birth pangs of ‘Roe v. Wade’

Mar 7, 2021

The independent drama Roe v. Wade had its red-carpet premiere, billed as the first large-scale movie opening since the pandemic began, on Feb. 26 at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando.

By Michael Augsberger