Pro-Life

By Mary Margaret Olohan, LifeNews - In November, Catholic Cardinal Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Washington canceled the 2023 Youth Rally and Mass for Life, a massive event held for the past 25 years that typically draws about 20,000 young people from across the U.S... The archdiocese’s statement on the matter, which noted that it will also not host the larger multi-diocese rally, offered little explanation other than that “many dioceses” are focused on state-level efforts to combat abortion... the decision is likely to impact the numbers since many Catholic dioceses are responsible for sending busloads of cheerful pro-life families to join the march. And it’s unclear why Gregory would make such a move.

By Joe Bukuras, Catholic News Agency - Pro-life pregnancy centers are bringing joy and blessings to women and families in need across the nation this Christmas season... ABC Pregnancy Resource Center in Lake Charles, Louisiana, said that each Christmas season, the center has a program called Christmas Blessings in which pregnant women involved in the center’s parenting classes receive Christmas gifts for their whole family from generous donors who “adopt” them.

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - Nebraska has a better chance of passing legal protections for unborn babies in 2023 after voters elected more pro-life lawmakers to the state legislature this fall... “It’s not clear that we have the votes we need (to oppose abortion restrictions),” Scout Richters, senior legal and policy council for ACLU of Nebraska, told the newspaper.

By Kristine Christlieb, Church Militant - For decades, American universities have been using fetal body parts in their research... "It appears that there's some sort of negotiation going on, and what Planned Parenthood says is that it's about the transfer of fetal tissue to biotech companies for research."... In the year Daleiden filed his document request, the National Institutes of Health spent $76 million on fetal tissue research.