Pro-Life

August 10, 2018

IT’S JUST HORRIFYING! In the Market for Fetal Body Parts, a Baby’s Brain Sells for $3,340

By Kelsey Harkness, Daily Signal - Republicans on the special House panel investigating the transfer of fetal tissue from aborted babies will present evidence in a hearing today that breaks down the price per body part... With release of this evidence, Republicans say, they have enough documentation to show that several abortion clinics and middleman procurement businesses may have violated federal law... “It is just horrifying,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who leads the House’s investigation of the fetal tissue industry...

August 8, 2018

Lawmakers Call for Transparency in Insurance Plans Funding Abortion

CNA/EWTN News - More than 100 members of Congress are asking the federal government to issue new regulations ensuring greater transparency in health insurance plans that include abortion... “Consumers have a right to know” if they are funding abortion coverage, said Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) in an Aug. 6 statement... “The Trump Administration now has the opportunity to take action and enforce the law to bring transparency to Obamacare’s abortion coverage and the abortion surcharge. No person should have to pay for abortion coverage they don’t want,” he said.

August 8, 2018

Pro-Life Groups Demand End to Federal Funding for Research Using Aborted Baby Parts

By Craig Bannister, CNSNews - Reacting to Tuesday’s CNSNews.com report that the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has contracted to obtain “fresh” human fetal tissue to transplant into “humanized mice,” pro-life organizations are demanding that the U.S. government terminate funding of research that uses tissue taken from aborted babies.

August 7, 2018

What Does it Take to Be Human? On the Genetic Modifications of Embryos

By Bob Kurland, Catholic Stand - The quote below from the Charter for Health Care Workers, Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance says it all: “No social or scientific usefulness and no ideological purpose could ever justify an intervention on the human genome unless it be therapeutic, that is its finality must be the natural development of the human being.”