Politics

January 22, 2019

Micaiah Bilger: Andrew Cuomo’s Bill Allowing Abortion Up to Birth Could Make Being Pro-Life a Crime

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - They noted that Governor Andrew Cuomo and state legislators “hail this new abortion law as progress.”.. “This is not progress,” the bishops countered. “Progress will be achieved when our laws and our culture once again value and respect each unrepeatable gift of human life, from the first moment of creation to natural death. Would that not make us truly the most enlightened and progressive state in the nation?”... The bill refers to abortion as a “fundamental human right,” which is cause for concern, said Gallagher. Because of the strong language, the bill could be used to block religious organizations from advocating for life, or prevent doctors from abstaining from performing abortions on religious or moral grounds.

January 22, 2019

CNA: NY Bishops Lament Bill to Expand Abortion in State

By Catholic News Agency - We mourn the unborn infants who will lose their lives,' the New York State bishops said.. The bishops of New York decried on Thursday the likely passage of the Reproductive Health Act, which would expand abortion access throughout the state, noting it will only increase family suffering... The bill was first introduced in 2007, but was often blocked by a Republican-led state senate.

January 22, 2019

Jesse B. Russell: Feral Leftists Attack Catholic Teens at March for Life

By Jesse B. Russell, Crisis Magazine - Regardless of what political and theological position they took on the matter, American Catholics developed a modus vivendi with the fact that in the United States, free speech was to be granted to any and all political positions… as we round the second decade of the twenty-first century, it has become increasingly clear to religious conservatives—including Catholics—that political forces of a different kind seek to deprive them of their free speech rights and question their suitability to hold public office.

January 22, 2019

POLITICS: Sex, Lies, and Videotape — A Week in the Culture War, by Dov Fischer

By Dov Fischer, American Spectator - We are embroiled in the fight for our lives. The secret to America’s greatness has been and is our culture. More than fighting ISIS in Syria or investigating the now-discredited Steele Dossier for two years, our nation’s future will rest on whether we can protect the Judeo-Christian culture that built this country and that continued making it the greatest nation humans ever created... We are a good people. We also are a normal people. Our norms stem from values that trace to Holy Scripture, to ten Divine pronouncements that the Bible records at Mount Sinai, to the expanded values that derive from those recorded declarations....