Pro-Life

October 27, 2023

‘We Came to Stop the Murder,’ Jailed Pro-Life Rescuer Jean Marshall Testifies in Third DC FACE Act Trial, by Louis Knuffke

By Louis Knuffke, LifeSiteNews - Day three of the third D.C. FACE Act trial saw jailed pro-life rescuer Jean Marshall take the stand in defense of her sister, Paulette Harlow, to testify to her peaceful, “non-violent,” “compassionate,” and “truthful” character, and the duo’s intent “to save lives” in their pro-life work... Marshall said the two had taken part in the October 2020 pro-life rescue at the Washington-Surgi Center – for which Marshall has been thrown in prison and her sister is standing trial ....

October 27, 2023

COMMENTARY: The Pro-Life Movement’s Achilles’ Heel, by Daniel and Nellie Kuebler

By Daniel and Nellie Kuebler, EWTN News - The state-level battles over abortion are exposing what decades of a widespread contraceptive mentality has done to the spiritual state of our nation... Last year’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was monumental. But throwing the abortion issue back to the states has not turned out to be the boon the pro-life movement hoped it would be. When the euphoria wore off, the difficulties of passing laws to defend unborn babies at the state level became increasingly apparent.

October 27, 2023

Speaker Mike Johnson Was an Attorney for a Pro-Life Group, Has a “Rock Solid Record on Life”, by Joshua Mercer

By Joshua Mercer, LifeNews - The House of Representatives has elected Rep. Mike Johnson, R-LA, as its 56th Speaker. Johnson won unanimous support from all present 220 Republicans... “The people’s House is back in business,” said the new speaker before his swearing in... “It is the honor of a lifetime to have been elected,” he wrote on X (Twitter)... “Catholics will have a friend if Mike Johnson is elected Speaker,” Mercer said.

October 25, 2023

Catholic Bishops Need to Vocally Speak Out Against Abortion, by Christopher Manion Ph.D.

By Christopher Manion Ph.D., LifeNews - Today, the few pro-family advocates at the USCCB are squirreled away in a tiny office in the conference’s D.C. headquarters, while our bishops advocate an endless stream of political programs that lie in the realm that properly belongs to the laity... And what about the family? As Cardinal Dolan observed in 2012, America’s bishops’ have suffered from “laryngitis over speaking about issues of chastity and sexual morality” for years... The truths of Humanae Vitae are timeless. One hundred years ago, America’s bishops clearly and steadfastly defended them. Today they’ve mostly gone silent.