Pro-Life News

The Mt. Juliet Board of Commissioners agreed to pay out $225,000 in a settlement with local abortion clinic Carafem during its latest meeting, ending a legal battle dating back to December 2019. Commissioners previously repealed an ordinance that effectively banned surgical abortions in the city limits after a federal court ruled against it in May, citing a likelihood that it violated due process under the 14th Amendment. That ordinance restricted surgical abortions to industrial zones, and originally included language that banned them within 1,000 feet of churches, schools and other facilities. It was later amended to 200 feet after the American Civil Liberties Union sued the city on behalf...

Twenty Republican senators sent a letter to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asking that the abortion pill be deemed dangerous. The letter centers around a drug taken to abort an early pregnancy known as Mifeprex or by its generic name mifepristone. Led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the lawmakers call on Commissioner Stephen Hahn to 'classify the abortion pill as an 'imminent hazard to the public health' that poses a 'significant threat of danger' and 'remove this pill from the US market.' Read more......

Patricia Kelly, a tireless advocate for the pro-life cause whose gentle but persistent lobbying efforts helped secure a ban on physician-assisted suicide in Maryland, died Sept. 4 at Portumna, her family farm in Carroll County. She was 88 and had been in declining health in recent years. A mother of 10 and a parishioner of St. Joseph in Taneytown, Kelly volunteered for Maryland Right to Life from 1980 to 1990 before working for 11 years as a legislative lobbyist focusing on pro-life concerns for the Maryland Catholic Conference, the Annapolis-based legislative lobbying arm of the state’s Catholic bishops. Read more......

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) chairman has praised the Trump administration for their decision to withhold federal funding from proposals that would use fetal tissue. The Trump administration recommended that the National Institutes of Health Human Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board not allow the use of federal funding for 13 of 14 research proposals that would have used fetal tissue. Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, who serves as chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities, said that this move is commendable for victims of abortion. Read more......

Abortion is arguably the most divisive issue in US politics - and with the presidential candidates promising to either revoke national rights to abortion or take extra steps to safeguard it, the stakes have never been higher. With President Trump in the White House, anti-abortion activists are energized and Republican-controlled states have tightened restrictions. Yet public support for abortion rights is the highest in decades, according to the Pew Research Center, with 61% of people favouring legal access to the procedure - and that's changed how Democrats talk about it. Read more......

While The Washington Post was reminding its readers that abortion is not the only election issue and USA Today lamented the potential loss of federal funds for abortion mills, National Public Radio claimed that that abortion issue is really no big deal for the vast majority of voters. Read more...  ...

Though Americans' views on abortion are very personal, more gray than black and white, and steeped in considerations of the "good life," such nuances seldom find a place in public discourse on the issue. Polling that focuses on the extremes, or on hypotheticals rather than lived situations, exacerbates the disconnect between how we talk about abortion and how Americans actually understand it, they concluded. Read more......

Amy Coney Barrett, Mr. Trump's Supreme Court nomination, meets the president's unprecedented anti-abortion rights litmus test. The federal judge has referred to abortion as "always immoral" and offers something a former top candidate, Barbara Lagoa, doesn't: A clear anti-abortion rights judicial record. During her three years on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, she has already ruled on two abortion-related cases, both times favoring restrictions on access to abortion. Read more......

Pro-lifers have strongly criticised the so-called 'International Safe Abortion Day', saying the term 'safe abortion' is a contradiction. Alithea Williams, Campaigns Assistant at SPUC, said: "'Safe abortion' is a contradiction in terms. No procedure that intentionally results in the death of at least one person can be described as 'safe'. In addition, abortion providers have some nerve talking about safe abortion, when they are actively promoting the unsafe practise of DIY home abortions. "It is particularly shocking that the RCOG, who are supposed to care for women and babies, are so brazenly promoting this abortion ideology." Read more......

Abortion is important to believers, but it is not just a religious issue. Rather, it raises three questions that are fundamental to human existence: What constitutes human life? When does personal human life begin? And how much protection does nascent human life deserve? Any decision we make that involves justice, truth-telling, public safety, even economics, is based on some assumptions about the answer to these questions. They must be considered by every rational person. Read more......