Pro-Life

June 18, 2018

Good Times Return, but Not Babies

By John Horvat II, Return to Order - There is an unwritten rule among those who watch the economy. When times are good, families have more babies. Across the board, the fertility rate of women of all ages goes up and the population is replenished. Young populations and prosperity are co-related and desired in healthy economies... However, that is not happening today. The Great Recession of 2008 is over, and the economy is booming. There is no lack of jobs for those who want them. There should be a baby boom that reflects this prosperity. However, the delivery room is ominously quieter.

June 18, 2018

Francis Condemns “Eugenic” Abortions and Fake Marriage

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - Pope Francis was silent about Ireland – a very odd reticence by a man who has no qualms about weighing in on public issues like climate change, fossil-fuel exploration, immigration, Middle Eastern politics, Hindu persecution of Muslim Rohingyas, international economics – the list goes on. All these have moral dimensions, of course, though it’s hard to see what expertise or insight the Vatican brings to such complex situations. By contrast, allowing abortion in Ireland means the direct and immediate killing of thousands of innocents.

June 18, 2018

New Human Rights Council Session Begins With Possibility of US Pull Out

By Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews - U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said on the day of the five anti-Israel votes… “The United States continues to evaluate our membership in the Human Rights Council…Our patience is not unlimited.”… Since the council’s creation 12 years ago, it has held just 28 special sessions. Of those, Israel has been targeted more than any other country – eight times (28.5 percent of the total)… Meanwhile human rights abuses in North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Russia, China and elsewhere have received no special session attention.

June 16, 2018

Analysis: Are Pro-Lifers About to ‘Take a Run at Roe v Wade’?

By Michael Davis, Catholic Herald, Saturday - Roe v Wade is the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision which, in essence, established the constitutional right to an abortion. The majority opinion cited the 14th Amendment, which was passed in 1868 to guarantee the equality of freed slaves. It ensures that “no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States”. The 14th Amendment later became the foundation of a constitutional right to privacy, which is controversial in itself.