Politics

August 21, 2020

Democrat Party Approves Platform Supporting Abortions Up to Birth at Taxpayer Expense, by Bill Donohue

By Bill Donohue, LifeNews - Pro-life Democrats tried to persuade Joe Biden and the leadership of the Democratic Party to soften their language on abortion rights. But the 2020 Democratic Party Platform that passed on August 19 shows they lost. Indeed, they lost on every recommendation they made... On May 12, Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats For Life of America (DFLA), wrote a letter to the members of the Platform Committee. She made four recommendations, three of which were specific.

August 20, 2020

President Trump’s Bioethics Panel Rejects 13 Projects Using Body Parts From Aborted Babies, by Micaiah Bilger

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - A new bioethics advisory board appointed by President Donald Trump released its first report Tuesday, recommending that the government reject funding for 13 of 14 research projects that plan to use aborted baby body parts... The recommendations are good news. Pro-life leaders have been urging the Trump administration to stop using tax dollars to fund unethical research for years. Under the Obama administration, millions of tax dollars were used to fund disturbing research studies, including one to create “humanized mice” with tissue from potentially viable aborted babies.

August 20, 2020

Dear USCCB: You Must Be Clear That Catholics Cannot Support Pro-Abortion Biden-Harris Ticket, by Dan Zeidler

By Dan Zeidler, LifeSiteNews - Dear Bishops Perry, Cahill, Campbell, Cisneros, Haines, Knestout, Madden, Sansaricq, and Staff person Donna Toliver Grimes: I write to express my strong disapproval of statements attributed to USCCB official Donna Toliver Grimes which I believe exacerbate the grave situation the country finds itself in... It is extremely obvious that given the Democratic Party's long-time extreme position against the right to life of unborn children, a position that only gets worse, and the radical pro-abortion positions of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, anything that seems to indicate that officials of the USCCB publicly favor the Democrats is totally unacceptable and deadly.

August 20, 2020

CNA: The Biden Platform: What Catholics Should Know

By Catholic News Agency - On marriage, Biden supported the Defense of Marriage Act in the 1990s, but in 2012 said he was “absolutely comfortable” with same-sex marriage; his comments as vice president in an election year prodded President Obama to announce his support for same-sex marriage days later. As VP, Biden himself officiated at a same-sex wedding ceremony for two White House staffers in 2016... Regarding abortion, the 2020 DNC platform builds upon the 2016 platform that one former Obama campaign staffer characterized was “extreme.”