pro-life Archives

Pro-life groups criticize Catholic university for hosting Biden town hall
- Jul 22, 2021
A few hours before CNN’s evening town hall with President Joe Biden on the campus of a Cincinnati Catholic university, the congregation of women religious that founded the school said the sisters were not involved in planning or hosting the July 21 event.

By Catholic News Service
What would founding feminist say to women’s movement today?
- Jul 22, 2021
We Americans often tend to think of rights as the first reality, that we are fundamentally beings with rights – for example, the right to life, the right to religious liberty, the right to property (perhaps foremost of all!)

By Charles C. Camosy
Spending bills without Hyde seen as move to expand abortion on demand
- Jul 17, 2021
WASHINGTON — In eliminating the Hyde Amendment in spending bills for fiscal year 2022, the “pro-abortion” Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee “destroy over 40 years of previously unprecedented bipartisan support for a measure aimed at saving human lives,” said the president of National Right to Life. “This is a

By Julie Asher

U.S. bishops again urge House members to restore Hyde to spending bill
- Jul 14, 2021
The House Committee on Appropriations is poised to mark up “the most extreme pro-abortion appropriations bill we have seen” because it excludes the 46-year-old Hyde Amendment and other long-standing bipartisan provisions that prevent tax money from being spent on abortion, two U.S. bishops’ committee chairmen said July 13.

By Julie Asher

House bill recognizes fetal pain, would bar most abortions after 20 weeks

Feb 17, 2021

Citing leading experts in the field of fetal pain, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, said the proposed Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act would end the “excruciating suffering and physical pain of unborn babies” by barring most abortions after 20 weeks gestation.

By Catholic News Service

In a few minutes on Sunday, Pope delivers a mini-social encyclical

Feb 8, 2021

Once again praying from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square, despite rain and the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis on Sunday ticked off many of his core social concerns: Peace, life, migration, and the fight against modern-day slavery, all in a matter of minutes.

By Inés San Martín