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By Russell Shaw, Catholic World Report - If the Supreme Court declines to take up Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, it will be a victory for the pro-life side in the dispute... The Supreme Court is expected soon to decide—indeed, may have decided by the time you read this—whether to let stand or review a lower court decision clamping down on mail order abortion. The focal point of the dispute is the widely used abortion drug mifepristone. ....

By Joshua Mercer, LifeNews - At their Plenary Fall meeting on Wednesday, the U.S. bishops approved an amendment reaffirming that opposition to abortion is their “preeminent priority” ahead of the 2024 elections... The amendment to the introductory note of their document “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” reads: “The threat of abortion remains our preeminent priority because it directly attacks our most vulnerable and voiceless brothers and sisters and destroys more than a million lives per year in our country alone.”

By St. John Henry Newman, The Development of Religious Error (1885) - Consider only the long pain and anguish which are the ordinary accompaniments of death. Supposing mankind has lasted many thousand years, the suffering has lasted just as long; there has been no interval of rest. But you will say it has an end, and is comparatively brief, to each mortal; then you mean to say that your objection to future suffering would cease were it only for a thousand years and not for ever?