General Pro Life Issues and Challenges

Interviews

• Nancy Valko

Book Reviews and Commentaries

• Unfolding a Post-Roe World by Francis Etheredge Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D.Profiles in Catholicism

• Unfolding a Post-Roe World by Francis Etheredge Reviewed by Monica Rapeanu STL Profiles in Catholicism

Articles and Commentaries

• Fertility rates show pro-life laws saved 22,000 lives in 2023, study finds by Kate Quiñones Catholic News Agency, The Catholic World Report

• Longtime attorney, marcher, elected to lead the March for Life by John Lavenburg Crux

• Chicago Pregnancy Center Vandalized as Democratic National Convention Closes by Peter Pinedo Catholic News Agency

• 89-year-old death camp survivor convicted for pro-life protest faces jail time by Daniel Payne Catholic News Agency/Angelus

• Pro-life association denounces indoctrination at Olympics by Almudena Martínez-Bordiú Catholic News Agency

• Three more pro-life activists sentenced under FACE Act by Peter Pinedo Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report

• Final pro-life activist sentenced for part in abortion clinic blockade gets 24 months in prison by Kurt Jensen Our Sunday Visitor

• Judge nixes North Carolina protections, allows non-doctors to prescribe abortion pills by Catholic Vote 

• Zero abortions in Arkansas for 2023: A pro-life victory by Adriana Azarian National Catholic Register 

• Bishops attack Boric’s plan to promote abortion and euthanasia in Chile by Eduardo Campos Lima Crux

• Pro-life groups accuse NY AG of censoring their work in new lawsuit by Kate Scanlon Our Sunday Visitor

• Pro-life pregnancy centers provided over $367.9 million worth of services in 2022 by Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency/Angelus 

• Pro-lifers sent off to prison, witnesses of light in the darkness by Monica Migliorino Miller The Catholic World Report

• Kansas Legislature enacts four pro-life bills over governor’s vetoes by Catholic News Agency/Angelus

• Toronto trustees oppose pro-life flag at its Catholic schools by Quinton Amundson Catholic News Agency

• Police escort again needed at Manchester University to protect pro-life speaker from screaming pro-abortion mob by James Jeffrey The Catholic Herald

• ‘Terrified’ pro-life student group needs police protection from baying mob at Manchester University by James Jeffrey Catholic Herald

• Falsehoods about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling involving in vitro fertilization (IVF) deserve refutation. We also need a close examination of the incoherence of current U.S. law. by John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. The Catholic News World

• Students at Manchester University want to end pro-life society by Madalaine Elhabbal Catholic Vote

• English Catholic priest vindicated for ‘pro-life’ opinion in end-of-life case by Joe Bukuras Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report 

• President, member of Vatican academy strike back at pro-life critics by Elise Ann Allen Crux

• Six pro-life activists convicted and face a decade in prison by Daniel Payne Catholic News Agency

• Catholics join the battle for Poland's pro-life laws by Luke Coppen The Pillar

• Pope applauds pro-life leader after key Italian vote on assisted suicide by Crux

• Undercover Israeli troops dressed as medical staff kill three militants in West Bank hospital raid, officials say by Abeer Salman CNN

• Pope applauds pro-life leader after key Italian vote on assisted suicide by Crux

• Six Pro-Life Advocates on Trial for FACE Act Charges by Jack Figge Catholic Vote

• Pro-Life Pregnancy Center Sues NJ Attorney General for Discriminatory Subpoena by Catholic Vote

• Peruvian bishops hail new law that specifies the rights of the unborn child by Diego Lopez Marina ACI Prensa/The Catholic News Agency

• North Carolina Right to Life celebrates 50 years, looks back and forward by The Catholic World Report

• Illinois Attacks Pro-Life Clinics, Immediately Faces Lawsuit by Catholic Vote

• Ireland: Homily of Bishop Kevin Doran before Rally For Life by Independent Catholic News

• Our Post-Roe world needs to see ‘love’ from us in pro-life work by Kathryn Jean Lopez National Catholic Register

• A Boy with a Piercing Gaze: What Was His Fate during the Holocaust? by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• The Teenager’s Paintings by The United States Holocaust memorial Museum

• A new version of the famous Holocaust diary is being called ‘Anne Frank pornography’ and getting banned from schools by Jewish Telegraphic Agency

• Catholic bioethics and legal experts have told a Senate committee that children born alive after an abortion should be granted legal protections. by CathNews

• Florida Sheriff’s Office Charges Suspect with Attempted Murder of Unborn Child by Catholic Vote

• When a breast cancer diagnosis knocked me down, a network of Jewish women lifted me up by Karen E. H .Skinazi Jewish Telegraphic Agency

• After Roe, Gabriel Project serves more mothers in need by Rebecca Torrellas Texas Catholic Herald /The Archdiocese of Galveston Houston

• Thousands Join ‘March of Life’ in Colombian Capital of Bogotá to Commemorate Holocaust Victims by Combat Antisemitism

• Kansas and Arizona governors veto bills to protect babies born alive after botched abortions by Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report

• Pro-life marchers in NYC dodge garbage, weather, and counter-protesters by Jonah McKeown Catholic News Agency

• Brazilian church denounce violence against rural communities by Eduardo Campos Lima Crux

• Nigeria: Military turn blind eye to attacks on Christians by Independent Catholic News

• Latin America celebrates Day of the Unborn Child with pro-life marches in several countries by Walter Sanchez Silva Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report

• There is hope: Meet the young Catholic lawmaker who went viral as a champion for life by Kelsey Wicks Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report

• Australian Catholics Defy Far Left To March for Unborn by Catholic Arena

• Abortion activists at Florida university charged with assaulting police officers by Peter Pinedo Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report

• GOP senator's bill would give pro-life pregnancy centers security upgrades amid attacks by Houston Keene Fox News

• Spanish bishop proclaims the right to life doesn’t come from the ballot box or a court by Nicolás de Cárdenas AC Prensa/Catholic News Agency

• Court rules pro-life group owes nearly $1 million in fines for Planned Parenthood protests by Kevin J. Jones Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report

• Man charged with sexually assaulting child at a gym in Lisle by Marissa Pearlman CBS Chicago

• Federal jury acquits pro-life activist of DoJ's FACE act charges by Ed Morrissey Hot Air

• Sinn Feon Collude to Ban Catholics from ProLife Prayer by Catholic Arena

• Irish Prolifers Defy Anti Prayer Zone Threat by Catholic Arena

• Jonathan Roumie: Pro-life advocacy the ‘worthiest and noblest cause possible’ by Jonah McKeown Catholic News Agency

• Pro-life friar: Prenatal justice isn’t about politics by Charles Camosy Angelus

• 2023 March for Life: 8 things for pro-lifers to know by Katie Yoder Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report

• 7 things to know about March for Life keynote speaker Jonathan Roumie of ‘The Chosen’ by Francesca Pollio Fenton Catholic News Agency

• Everyone can livestream Life Fest before the March for Life by Aleteia

• Pavone: It’s Possible I Missed Laicization Notice by Shannon Mullen, Jonah McKeown, and Joe Bukuras Catholic News Agency

• Pro-life Florida musician finds a way to evangelize using rap music by Katie Camario Catholic News Service/The Pilot

• Former abortionist recalls moment of pro-life conversion: 'God's mercy is here' by ACPensa/The Pilot

• Afghan refugees reunited with baby thanks to pro-life pregnancy center by Zelda Caldwell Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report

• Taking seriously attacks on churches and pro-life institutions by Father Roger J. Landry The Pilot

• FBI arrest of Pennsylvania pro-life leader called 'horrendous stunt' by Catholic News Agency/The Pilot

• Vandalism of pro-life pregnancy centers continues across US with incident near Seattle by Jonah McKeown Catholic News Agent/The Catholic World Report

• USCCB president, committee chairmen recommit church to pro-life initiatives by Julie Asher Catholic News Service/The Pilot

• From violence to respect for life by Tony Magliano Clarion Herald

• The pro-life movement must focus on Democrats after Roe by Charles Camosy Angelus

• The Pro-Life Movement Continues to Gaslight by Mary Pezzula Patheos

• Conservatives and liberals unite for life – it’s the Catholic way! by Tony MaglianoThe Southern Cross

• Several pro-life laws take effect in South Dakota by Catholic News Agency/ The Catholic World Report

• Spanish Government Attempts to Stop Prolife Progress with Vigil Ban by Catholic Arena

• Massive pro-life demonstrations to be organized in Spain by Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report

• Critics say Argentinian blacklist of pro-lifers uses Dirty War tactics by Inés San Martín Crux

• Priest Bravely Faces Down Anti Baby Protestors by Catholic Arena

• Spanish bishop criticizes bill that would criminalize pro-life witness near abortion clinics by Blanca Ruiz Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report

• New stem cell research guidelines a ‘shifting goalpost’ for embryo safeguards. ethicist says by Charles Collins Crux

• Utter disregard’ for life: Members of Congress slam new guidance on embryo research by Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report

• NIH reverses restrictions on fetal tissue research by Catholic News Agency/The Catholic World Report

• Human-monkey embryo ‘deeply unethical,’ says Catholic bioethicist by Charles Collins Crux

• French National Assembly passes anti-extremism bill proposing stricter rules for religion by Catholic News Agency Staff Catholic News Agency

• Catholic women pursue pro-life values at the border by Pauline Hovey National Catholic Reporter

• Texas Successfully Defunds Planned Parenthood by ALE National Review

• How accepting my homosexuality made me more pro-life by Kelden Formosa America

• The Future of the Pro-Life Movement by Gabriel Blanchard Patheos

• Covid-19 restrictions move pro-life rallies online. Here’s what California is doing. “There’s more to being pro-life than abortion and assisted suicide,” said organizer Kathleen Domingo. “We want to keep our families safe. We didn’t think it was worth the risk. Life is precious.” by J.D. Long-García America

• My Pro-Life Speech on the Steps of the NH State House by Brother Andre Marie Catholicism

• Our divided church has to grapple with being pro-life by Donna Gunn Global Sisters Report

• Pre-natal screening can lead to ‘moral ugliness’ of aborting disabled, theologian says by Charles C. Camosy Crux

• Marie Stopes and Planned Parenthood Whitewash Racist Origins of Their Violent Mission. Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes shared an aversion to “racial darkness” — an aversion that led them to promote contraception and eugenics. by Patti Armstrong National Catholic Register

• Pharmacists Find Challenges and Rewards for Taking a Pro-Life Stand,Not selling contraceptives is the conviction of pro-life pharmacists the Register recently interviewed. by National Catholic Register

• St. Gerard Majella Rescues Another Mother and Child by Joseph Pronechen National Catholic Register

• To be truly pro-life, the church must be antiracist by U.S .Catholic

• Pro-Lifers Hail HHS Ethics Board’s Findings Against Fetal Tissue Research The ethics board reviewed 14 research proposals and recommended that HHS withhold funding from all but one of them. by Mary Rose Short  National Catholic Register

• A Safe Haven for Abandoned Babies. Nick Silverio’s ‘A Safe Haven for Newborns’ apostolate has been a lifeline to those in crisis. by Robert Klesko National Catholic Register

• The Gospel of Matthew reminds us that just wages are a pro-life issue by Jaime L. Waters America

• Bayer to pay $1.6 billion in contraception injury settlement by CNA/The Catholic World Report

• NIH board votes against funding most research proposals using fetal tissue by Julie Asher  Catholic News Service/Angelus

• Metuchen bishop says Catholics must remain anchored in respect for all life by Catholic News Service/Crux

• Bishop John Stowe rebukes Trump as 'anti-life' by Lucy Grindon National Catholic Reporter

• Father James Martin: Wearing a mask is pro-life by  Father James Martin. S.J. America

• Catholic Bioethicist Warns Against Gene-Editing Experiments. by Kate Scanlon EWTN News

• Starving Children by Gordon Nary  Profiles in Catholicism

• Covid-19: Brazil’s Bishops join in virtual March for Life by  Devin Watkins  Vatican News

• Online forum examines racism being as much a pro-life issue as abortion by Dennis Sadowski  Catholic News Service/Crux

• New York cardinal hopes coronavirus crisis stirs ‘newfound respect’ for life by Christopher White Crux

• Teen dedicates Scout project to unborn children, including four siblings by  Kristen L. Byrd  The Pilot

• The Catholic Struggle Against Eugenics by Eve Tushnet  Patheos

• 8,000 people at March for Life in Berlin, Germany with many Youth and Bishops - Protesters blocking were Removed by Police by Jesus Caritas Est Catholc News World

• U.S. bishops debate how to integrate Pope Francis’ broader pro-life focus by  Michael J. O’Loughlin  America

• Ohio Senate passes two pro-life laws despite legal challenges by Christine Rousselle  Catholic News Agency/Angelus

• Respect Life! Challenge The Culture Of Death! by Tony Magliano Clarion Herald

• ‘It transcends the abortion debate.’ The hospital program for parents facing tragic prenatal diagnoses by Kerry Weber America

• 17-year-old with Down syndrome becomes pro-life advocate in Canada by Kyle Hreenham  The Pilot

• The America Profile: Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, the pro-life Catholic Democrat by Matt Malone, S.J. America

• In pro-life push, Knights give 1,000th ultrasound to Virginia clinic by Christopher White  Crux

• Chinese scientist under fire for genetically editing babies by ucanews.com reporter UCANews.com

• Moral & Practical Problems with the 1st Gene-Edited Babies by Fr. Matthre P. Schneider  Patheos

• New Tests Allow “Screening” of Low-IQ Babies by Fr Matthrew P.Schneider  Patheos

• Man tries to run down Jews leaving Los Angeles synagogue by Jewish Telegraphic Agency

• Anti-Semitic vandalism painted outside Jewish homes in Seattle by Jewish Telegraphic Agency

• Court dismisses Satanists’ case against pro-life laws by Dorothy Cummings McLean LiveSiteNews

• Labour Party calls for ban on early pregnancy gender test by Staff Reporter Catholic Herald

• Congressmen object to FDA's 'barbaric' research method using human fetal tissue by Catholic News Agency

• No One is a Bicycle: Why we Need a New Pro-Life Movement by Mary Pezzulo  Patheos

• Miscarriages are happening in I.C.E. custody. Will the pro-life movement respond? by the Editors of  America

• Blessed Paul VI and the Unborn Child by Joanna Bogle National Catholic Register

• Marching for life is not enough by Tony Magliano Angelus

• Can a “Broader Conversation” about Life Still Include Abortion? by Billy Critchley-Menor, SJ

• This pro-life talk at Google's headquarters was a hit by Catholic News Agency

• Pope Francis on God’s call to holiness – defend all human life by Tony Magliano  Association of U.S. Catholic Priests

• Widening the ‘Pro-Life’ Frame by John Gehring  Commonwealth

• Gene-edited 'designer babies' offer miracle cures, questionable ethics  by Laura Kelly The Washington Times