Jeanie Hannaman

February 21, 2025

War Party Groupthink Over Ukraine Is Crumbling. Could Peace Break Out Soon? by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream - (Among a group of) conservative Christian leaders ... I can’t help remembering one issue that seemed to unite them: the need to stand up to Russia and fund the war in Ukraine, and maybe (if need be) send our own troops over there... I challenged them: How many of you were on board with G.W. Bush and his Iraq War? Remember all those ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that threatened Manhattan? The claim that he was behind 9/11? What about those promises that our troops would be greeted with flowers, that the oil revenues would pay for the war, that we’d build a pro-American democracy over there? ...

February 21, 2025

93% of Human Embryos Created by IVF Will be Frozen, Destroyed or Aborted, by Dan Hart

By Dan Hart, LifeNews - Washington, DC - In the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order issued on Tuesday to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF), pro-life organizations and advocates are expressing concerns over the destruction of embryonic human life that the process involves, highlighting alternative fertility treatments that are more effective, and encouraging guardrails to be put in place regulating the IVF industry and ensuring that conscience protections are established.

February 21, 2025

Federal Court Smacks Down USCCB’s Demand to Force Trump Administration to Fund ‘Refugee’ Settlement, by Jim Hᴏft

By Jim Hᴏft, Gateway Pundit - A federal judge on Thursday delivered a major blow to the USCCB, denying their attempt to force the Trump administration into continuing taxpayer funding for their massive refugee resettlement operations... Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, rejected the bishops’ request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) that would have forced the administration to immediately restore funding... The lawsuit, filed by the non-profit organization USCCB in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenged the Trump administration’s decision to cut off federal grants that fuel the mass resettlement of migrants across America ...

February 21, 2025

Catholics: First and Final Defense Against IVF, by Stacy Trasancos, PhD

By Stacy Trasancos, PhD, Crisis Magazine - As promised, President Donald Trump signed an executive order for a domestic policy review of in vitro fertilization (IVF) access with an aim to reduce the cost of the procedure. Although this is a policy review with no immediate action, it is still an endorsement of IVF as pro-life, pro-family, and pro-society, and it comes from a president who has been called the most pro-life president in the history of the United States... The public is mixed on the ethics of IVF.