Committee on Pro-Life Activities Archives

Pro-life leaders say amendment would ‘enrich’ abortion providers overseas

Nov 25, 2019

Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Activities, and 17 other pro-life leaders have called on President Donald Trump to block an amendment they say would “enrich global abortion providers,” which currently is part of a Senate appropriations measure.

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

Oct 18, 2019

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
- Apr 2, 2019
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.

By Catholic News Service
Bishops say EPA plan to roll back pollution rule would harm the unborn
- Mar 25, 2019
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.

By Dennis Sadowski
States, District of Columbia sue to stop new rule for Title X funding
- 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.

By Catholic News Service