Anti-abortion Archives

Cardinal urges Canadian pro-lifers at march to ‘speak more loudly by silence’

Catholic News Service, Global Church
May 12, 2018

Heeding a call from Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins to “speak more loudly by silence,” Canada’s largest pro-life march reversed course May 10 after it was blocked for at least 20 minutes by a counterprotest.

‘Godmothers for Life’ serve vulnerable moms in Uruguay

Catholic News Agency, Global Church
Mar 18, 2018

An Uruguayan non-profit organization called “Godmothers for Life” has been serving mothers in crisis pregnancies for more than 17 years, working out of a facility at Saint Jerome Chapel in Montevideo.

Court strikes down Baltimore law on pregnancy centers

Associated Press, Church in the US
Jan 6, 2018

A Baltimore law that required an anti-abortion pregnancy counseling center to post disclaimers in its waiting room is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

‘Misinformation’ seen as reason for veto of Pennsylvania abortion bill

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Dec 21, 2017

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed pro-life legislation that “would have strengthened” the state’s Abortion Control Act “by banning the cruel and brutal practice of dismemberment abortions,” said the state Catholic conference.

Judge’s order targets Kentucky abortion clinic protesters

Associated Press, Church in the US
Jul 23, 2017

The number of protesters is expected to surge this weekend when Texas-based Operation Save America converges on Louisville for a weeklong vigil, with the long-term goal of making Kentucky a national model in its push to end abortion. The group urges state officials to ignore the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 that legalized abortion.

Is the pro-Life movement still welcome in the anti-war movement?

Church in the US, Commentary
Jun 8, 2017

When anti-war organizations are excluding pro-life groups from their activities, it highlights the incoherence of the culture wars. What can we say about these anti-war leaders having abortion purity tests for their movements? It seems they have little or no sense of how intertwined the pro-life and anti-war movements have been and continue to be.