pro-life Archives

Missouri Catholics say pro-life law ‘most significant in a generation’

The executive director of the Missouri Catholic Conference says a new state law is the “strongest pro-life law passed in many decades.” The Catholic conference, which is the public policy agency for the state’s four Catholic dioceses, worked with Missouri Right to Life, Campaign Life Missouri and others to push for passage of the bill.

Unborn babies can detect different languages, new study says

Children might be learning how to recognize language up to one month before they are born, according to a recent study. In a test, unborn children were able to distinguish the difference between someone speaking in English and someone speaking Japanese.

Judge’s order targets Kentucky abortion clinic protesters
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- July 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.
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Could a California bill make Catholic conduct codes illegal?
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- July 22, 2017
A proposed new law in California would prohibit employers from requiring their employees to sign a waiver or other document that “purports to deny any employee the right to make his or her own reproductive health care decisions.” It would also bar an employer from taking any adverse action against an employee based on the use of any medical service related to “reproductive health” – which would include abortion, contraception and sterilization.
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Head of Vatican’s Academy of Life: Dialogue is love, not compromise
- Interviews
- July 19, 2017
In an interview, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia explains the Vatican’s Academy for Life’s new strategy and vision and the important role non-Catholic members could play in promoting them. The archbishop wants the academy to aim to be missionary in outlook, seeking to tackle what he calls “the great frontiers of life” in collaboration with believers of other churches and faiths as well as non-believers.
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