Pro-Life

January 9, 2019

St. John Paul II: Violence and the Value of Life

By St. John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae (1995) - The Lord said to Cain: “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground” (Gen 4:10).The voice of the blood shed by men continues to cry out, from generation to generation, in ever new and different ways... The Lord’s question: “What have you done?”, which Cain cannot escape, is addressed also to the people of today, to make them realize the extent and gravity of the attacks against life which continue to mark human history; to make them discover what causes these attacks and feeds them...

January 8, 2019

Cheryl Sullenger: Abortion Clinics Closed in 2018, 79% of All Abortion Clinics Open in 1991 Have Shut Down

By Cheryl Sullenger, LifeNews - The number of abortion clinics in America continued to decline in 2018, following a trend that has seen an overall decrease of 159 abortion facilities since 2012… Overall, in 2018, 40 abortion facilities closed or no longer qualify as abortion clinics… Today, there are a total of 697 abortion centers left in America – seven fewer than there were at the end of 2017.

January 8, 2019

New Mexico Bill Could Allow ‘Suicide Tourism,’ Critics Warn

CNA/EWTN New - Proposed legislation in New Mexico could legalize assisted suicide in the state, and may even allow for the prescription of deadly drugs outside the state via telemedicine, and by healthcare professionals other than physicians... Deacon Steve Rangel, associate director for the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the bill was disheartening to read... “In our Catholic faith, we know the dignity of life from conception to natural death,” he told CNA...

January 7, 2019

Nancy Pelosi Prays “Lord Make Me a Channel for Thy Peace,” Then Votes to Fund Abortions

By Lauretta Brown, LifeNews - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slammed Democrats late Thursday evening for including provisions to expand taxpayer-funded abortion in their funding measures to end the partial government shutdown... McCarthy particularly criticized Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who describes herself as a Catholic but ignores the church’s teachings on abortion… “Earlier today Speaker Pelosi quoted a prayer by Saint Francis: ‘Lord make me a channel of thy peace… Hours later, Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats voted to allow foreign aid money to be used to perform and promote the violence of abortion overseas.”