Committee on Pro-Life Activities Archives

Report outlines ‘dangers, harms’ assisted suicide laws pose to disabled

The National Council on Disability said in a new study that “the dangers and harms” physician-assisted suicide laws present to people with disabilities “appear to be as significant today” as they were in 1997 and 2005, when the council earlier analyzed the harms of such laws.

U.S. bishops’ pro-life chair says ‘our nation is better’ than to allow infanticide

For doctors and other medical personnel not to provide care to babies who survive an abortion “is a lethal form of discrimination against the circumstances of the child’s birth,” said the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

Bishops say EPA plan to roll back pollution rule would harm the unborn

Unborn children would face greater health risks if the Environmental Protection Agency moves to rescind a rule regulating hazardous air pollutants emitted by power plants, said the chairmen of two U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committees.

States, District of Columbia sue to stop new rule for Title X funding
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Mar 6, 2019
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed suit March 4 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco to block the Trump administration’s “Protect Life Rule,” which prevents funds provided under the Title X Family Planning Program from being used in services that include abortion as a method of family planning or that make abortion referrals.
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Rule requiring ‘clear separation’ of Title X funds from abortion applauded
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Feb 28, 2019
The U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee chairman Feb. 27 praised the Trump administration for finalizing its “Protect Life Rule” to prevent funds appropriated under the Title X Family Planning Program from being used in services that include abortion as a method of family planning or that make abortion referrals.
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Archbishop urges Senate to OK bill to protect babies who survive abortion
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Feb 6, 2019
It is “unconscionable” that the U.S. Senate failed to “unanimously declare to the nation that infanticide is objectively wrong,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
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