Pro-Life

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - The Louisiana Senate strongly supported a bill Tuesday that would prohibit abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy… Senate Bill 181 passed in a 31-3 vote, and now moves to the state House for consideration… More than 200 unborn babies could be saved from abortion every year if the bill becomes law. Data from the state Department of Health indicates about 200 unborn babies were aborted after 15 weeks of pregnancy in 2017 in Louisiana.

By Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ, Aleteia - There are limits to our endurance, whether physical, mental, or emotional. Long-distance runners speak of “hitting the wall,” when they reach the limit of their capacity to take another step. Can’t we “hit the wall” in the spiritual life? Isn’t there a point where we just can’t be expected to make another act of faith, hope or charity?.. Well, it depends …

By Michael W. Chapman, CNSNews - The Medical Ethics Alliance condemned the directors of the Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool, England, for refusing to allow a 23-month-old child, Alfie Evans, who has a degenerative neurological condition, to travel to Italy for treatment.... The Alder Hey Hospital, funded by the government-run British National Health Service (NHS), said it was "not in Alfie's best interests" to continue treatment and the child has been taken off of a ventilator.

By Jennifer Hartline, The Stream - Alfie Evans will likely soon die not because his disease finally overpowered him, but because judges and doctors overpowered his parents and decreed that Alfie must die according to their terms... It is a depraved and frightening culture that is so invested in death, so determined to refuse hope, and so power-greedy that parents are helpless to parent their own child.