Pro-life leaders criticized the U.S. Senate's Feb. 15 confirmation of Dr. Robert Califf as President Joe Biden's commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, taking issue with Califf's role in the agency expanding the availability of the drug protocol used for chemical
The proposed Build Back Better Act has much-needed provisions "uplifting the common good," but "it is completely unacceptable" the current House version of the bill "expands taxpayer funding of abortion," the chairmen of six committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
In a 218-211 vote Sept. 24, the U.S. House passed what opponents consider one of the most extreme abortion bills ever seen in the nation -- the Women's Health Protection Act.
"This bill is far outside the American mainstream and goes far beyond
The Women's Health Protection Act of 2021, introduced in the U.S. Senate and House June 8 and currently moving through various committees in both chambers, "is nothing short of child sacrifice," said Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco.
The "misnamed" measure, he
Immigration advocates were dealt a blow at the beginning of a week that many believed would bring about history.
They had hoped to include an immigration provision in the $3.5 trillion budget bill that would have granted legal status to 8 million farmworkers
Two Catholic archbishops Sept. 17 objected to two House committees advancing portions of the $3.5 trillion budget bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, with language that funds abortions being added to wording they support to improve access to affordable health
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed by the Senate makes "historic investments" in transportation, climate change mitigation, job creation, expanded internet access and other areas, but several issues still need attention, said the U.S. bishops' domestic policy committee chairman.
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
The refusal by the U.S. House to include the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life riders in appropriations bills before lawmakers passed the measures is an "injustice" that overshadows the provisions that help "vulnerable people," said the chairmen of two U.S. bishops' committees.
Late
As he offered three amendments to the State Department appropriations bill before the House July 28, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., asked his House colleagues in remarks from the floor, "Where is the justice and empathy and compassion for unborn babies?"
"Rather than
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.