Politics

The Catholic Herald - The UK’s pro-life movement is calling on Catholic bishops to speak out more publicly and effectively against a culture that sees women being pressurised by medical staff to have abortions... The move comes after two mothers ended their pregnancies following Nottingham Univ. Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH)... mistakenly informing them that their unborn babies had serious genetic conditions... “The Church must accept its own part in this terrible situation, in which clergy and lay faithful have failed to speak up – through fear, discomfort or ignorance” ...

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - The Department of Health and Human Services today issued its updated definition of sex for all federal agencies and the public. The new guidance makes it clear that human life begins at conception... The guidance was issued to make it clear there are only two biological sexes, but the confirmation also makes it clear that that establishment of the sex of a human being – this the life of a human being – begins at conception... “The sex of a human, male or female, is determined genetically at conception (fertilization) and is observable before birth,” it reads.

By Jules Gomes, The Stream - Catholic bishops recently formed an unholy alliance with the abortion giant Planned Parenthood to thwart critical pro-life legislation in North Dakota insisting that classifying abortion as murder and recognizing unborn children as “persons” would criminalize women procuring abortions... While the abortion giant attacked the bill as “a harmful piece of legislation that would redefine human being and personhood to apply at the moment of conception,” the North Dakota Bishops’ Conference argued that “the U.S. Supreme Court has not held that unborn children are ‘persons’ under the 14th Amendment.”