Pro-Life

May 7, 2018

When California Is Right and Texas Is Wrong

By John Zmirak, The Stream - California’s Bishops Defend the First Amendment - So when I see the words “Conference of Bishops” occur all together, I want to wrap my head in tinfoil and stick it in the microwave. For once, however, that impulse was out of place! Remember the new California law censoring speech on gay orientation? Well, the California bishops did the right thing. In the right way. In partnership with the best people.

May 5, 2018

Vice President Mike Pence Responds to Michelle Wolf’s Abortion Jokes About Him in an Amazing Way

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - Mike Pence took the disgusting jokes in stride. He responded to Michelle Wolf’s WHCD jokes with a Bible verse, insisting that he took the criticism and ridicule as “joy.”.. “I’m pro-life and I don’t apologize for it,” Pence told CBN News in an interview published Thursday. “It comes with the territory.”.. He quoted the book of James, saying, “As the Bible says, I count it all joy when I endure trials or criticisms.”

May 5, 2018

Iowa Governor Signs Fetal Heartbeat Bill Into Law

By Christine Rousselle, CNA/EWTN News - Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) on Friday afternoon signed into law the Fetal Heartbeat Bill, which prohibits doctors from performing an abortion after the detection of the baby’s heartbeat... The law would require any women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound to determine whether a fetal heartbeat can be detected, a milestone usually detected around the sixth week of pregnancy.

May 5, 2018

A Re-Reading (Relectio) of “Humanae Vitae,” Part II

By E. Christian Brugger, The Catholic Thing - Another way to phrase this is to say that unity and procreation are intrinsic goods of the marital act. They are its goods precisely because they are defining goods of marriage itself. Marriage is a unitive and procreative type of friendship. The sexual act that takes its name from that friendship – the marital act – is likewise a unitive and procreative type of act.