“What we are doing now, as a society, is deeply unworthy of us.” The late Congressman Henry Hyde pointed this out in a speech in 1987. He was talking about abortion in America. He talked about a time — “and that day,
Kathryn Jean Lopez reflects upon comments made by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier saying the government is mandating pregnancy. Lopez believes, though, that that is where we can find a meeting ground. She writes: “I do believe
The first thing people who work in Catholic ministries that assist women with crisis pregnancies want people to know is that they were doing the work long before the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
The chairmen of two U.S. bishops' committees said a measure passed by the House July 15 is "the most unjust and extreme abortion on demand bill our nation has ever seen."
They implored lawmakers "who see abortion as a legitimate 'solution' to the
Two abortion measures passed by the House July 15 "promote an extreme abortion agenda," said Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life.
In a mostly party-line vote of 219 to 210, House members approved an updated version of the Women's Health Protection Act,
On June 24, the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration outlined several policy goals it called a “blueprint for addressing the maternal health crisis” in the United States — a “whole-of-government approach to combatting maternal mortality and
Nearly 50 years after Justice Harry Blackmun discovered the “right” to an abortion in the “penumbras” and “emanations” of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Justice Samuel Alito revealed that this right was as real as the emperor’s new clothes. With
With the reversal of Roe, Judy Orr, executive director of Catholic Charities in the Nashville Diocese, and the agency's adoption and pregnancy counseling staff expect an uptick in the need for those services.
"Our society is going to be compelled to provide more
When the Supreme Court ruled June 24 that there is no constitutional right to abortion, the historic decision came a day before what would have been the 98th birthday of Nellie Gray, founder of the March for Life.
The march -- which Gray,
Columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez writes that she finds herself in an unexpected but happy place — a world in which Roe v. Wade has been overturned: “Thirty hours or so into life after Roe, I walked off a train in Washington, D.C.,