USCCB Pro-Life Chairman Urges Biden to Act Like the ‘Devout Catholic’ He Says He Is, by Katie Yoder

Katie Yoder serves as a digital media specialist at EWTN News Inc. and columnist for Townhall.com. …

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 12, 2021 / 10:53 am – The U.S. Catholic bishops’ pro-life chairman is expressing disappointment with President Biden as his administration reverses a Trump-era rule that restricted funding over abortion.

“It’s really sad,” Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, who heads the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, told EWTN News Nightly on Oct. 8. The Biden administration, he added, is “in the control of abortion extremists.”

The archbishop reacted to the administration’s reversal of the “Protect Life Rule,” which barred tax dollars from Title X recipients that provide or promote abortion and required Title X clinics to be physically separate from abortion clinics. A federal program, Title X subsidizes family planning services, including contraceptives, for low-income communities. …