Pro-Life

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - House Republicans successfully blocked a Democrat amendment that would have repealed pro-life protections in the Fiscal Year 2026 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill, preserving long-standing policies that prevent U.S. taxpayer funds from supporting abortions overseas... The bill, advanced by the House Appropriations Committee on July 24, maintains robust pro-life safeguards, including the Helms Amendment, which prohibits foreign aid from funding abortions, and the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy, an expanded version of the Mexico City Policy that bars funding to foreign organizations promoting or performing abortions. ....

The Editors, National Catholic Register - Affirmations of the sanctity of human life from a U.S. bureaucracy certainly aren’t an everyday occurrence, so it was notable on July 21 when Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did precisely that in sharing the disturbing findings of a federal investigation into the operating practices of a federally funded organ-procurement organization... The investigation by the HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration examined 351 patients for whom organ donation was authorized, but not completed, in accordance with currently accepted U.S. standards for brain death.