With a new conservative majority on the Supreme Court, several states this year have seized on the opportunity to advance pro-life legislation aiming to overturn Roe v. Wade. One type of pro-life legislation in particular is increasingly gaining momentum on the state level—heartbeat bills which ban abortion from the moment an unborn child’s heartbeat can…
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a press briefing yesterday, announced the Trump administration is expanding the Mexico City Policy to stop backdoor funding to pro-abortion organizations. Under the new expanded policy, foreign NGOs receiving U.S. foreign health assistance will be prohibited from providing funding to any other foreign NGOs that perform or promote…
Did you hear this on the news? We sure didn’t! Amid the 2019 headline-grabbing, increasingly rabid, unabashed and unrestrained national and local campaigns against unborn babies, not to mention against their mothers and fathers who will suffer the rest of their lives for agreeing to such horror, it only seems appropriate to recall with tears…
CNA—Controversy over a New York abortion bill resulted in a rebuke for a state senator who has been disinvited from a Huntington, N.Y. Irish-American Catholic group’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities and asked to resign as a member due to his vote for the legislation. Monsignor Steven R. Camp, chaplain of the Ancient Order of Hibernians’…
Crisis—“Don’t immanentize the eschaton!” was William F. Buckley’s popularized version of an idea taken from the political philosopher Eric Voegelin. Buckley later made it a political slogan: “Don’t let them immanentize the eschaton!” With apologies to Voegelin scholars, what Buckley meant was: “Don’t let ideologues try to create heaven on earth, because they’ll deprive us…
CNA—The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act has failed to achieve the 60 votes necessary to invoke cloture and bring the legislation forward. The Senate voted of 53 to 44 to invoke cloture on Monday, but fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to halt a filibuster by Democratic senators. The vote was almost entirely on…
We are frequently questioned or challenged to substantiate the arguments that we have been making about the effect of the Reproductive Health Act. People keep asking us to show them “where in the bill does it say that”? Here is a detailed explanation of how the bill (now the law) does precisely what…
Although there is no lawsuit filed at this time, a California attorney, Robert Barnes, who is pro-bono representing families and students of Covington Catholic High School, according to LifeSiteNews, confirmed that the FBI and the Los Angeles police department are already investigating a bomb threat issued to his office. He also confirmed that the state…
Even “banging on the doors of the basilica after they were locked out,” according to one seminarian. Can you imagine experiencing such bold, targeted and immediately threatening behavior during Mass in the U.S.? The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception has confirmed that protesters led by the Native American activist Nathan Phillips…
CNA—While demonstrators chanted and played ceremonial drums, protesters at a rally led by Nathan Phillips attempted Jan. 19 to enter Washington, DC’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception during a Saturday evening Mass. The group of demonstrators was stopped by shrine security as it tried to enter the church during a Saturday…
By far the biggest Walk for Life takes place in Washington D.C., on or near the date of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that undermined the human rights of a human unborn child in the United States. Now the second largest U.S. walk for life takes place in San Francisco. And, there are…
Mainstream media reported “thousands” or “tens of thousands” at this year’s 2019 March for Life in Washington, D.C., that is, if they mentioned the massive pro-life walk on or near the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision at all. But history, objective observation and, this year, a time-lapsed video tell quite a different story! The…
LifeSiteNews—The man, now identified as Jordan Hunt, who was captured on video roundhouse-kicking a pro-life woman was fired from a Toronto hair salon as a result of his actions. The shocking 46-second clip by Marie-Claire Bissonnette, youth coordinator with Campaign Life Coalition, went viral after it was published on… Read More>>
CNA and CBJ—A wave of media attention engulfed this weekend a group of students who attended last week’s annual March for Life in Washington, DC. The students, most of whom attend Catholic high schools in Kentucky, were accused on Saturday of harassing and taunting a Native American drummer, but subsequent revelations revealed a decidedly more…
January 22 marks the 46th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision known as Roe vs. Wade that made it the law of the land in the United States that abortion on demand was legal in every state. Prior to this, each state established its own laws on the matter. Not heard on the mainstream…
Three in four Americans (75 percent) say abortion should be limited to – at most – the first three months of pregnancy. This includes most of those who identify as Republicans (92 percent), Independents (78 percent) and a majority of Democrats (60 percent). It also includes more than six in 10 (61 percent) who identify…
It’s not just “the wall.” Lifesite News and other sources report that the Trump administration made clear it would not consider a Democrat spending bill to fully reopen the federal government partially because it would also restore foreign aid to organizations that commit or promote abortions. The latest proposed legislation not only lacked the wall…
Following a legal battle that has lasted nearly seven years, EWTN Global Catholic Network has prevailed in its lawsuit against the U.S. government over what has become known as the “HHS Contraception Mandate.” In an order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit published Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, the court vacated a…
CNA/EWTN News – On Tuesday, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) signed a bill banning abortions performed after five months of pregnancy in most cases, citing evidence that unborn babies can feel pain at this point. At the same time, he vetoed the “heartbeat bill” passed by the state’s legislature, which would have outlawed abortions once a…
One Catholic legislator gets creative as he aims to shake up complacent colleagues on self-destructive life issues plaguing culture in general and his country in particular. Catholic Business Journal says “Bravo!” and, my goodness, talk about making one’s point!!! Brilliant. CNA— After being slammed for his religion and told he would never understand abortion because…
