Tag: pro-life issues
U.S. bishops call refusal to include Hyde Amendment in spending bills...
WASHINGTON — The refusal by the U.S. House to include the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life riders in appropriations bills before lawmakers passed the...
Efforts to attach pro-life amendments to House appropriations bill fail
WASHINGTON — As he offered three amendments to the State Department appropriations bill before the House July 28, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., asked...
Show compassion, change hearts one at a time, speakers urge pro-lifers
HERNDON, Va. — Olivia Gans Turner has been a prominent pro-life speaker for years, but it didn’t always come easy.
“I hated public speaking, and...
Bishops urge U.S. House committee to include pro-life policies in proposed...
WASHINGTON — The chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life and international policy committees have urged the House Appropriations Committee and all members of Congress...
Have questions about bishops’ Communion document? The USCCB has answers
WASHINGTON — A page on the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops answers a series of questions regarding the bishops’ vote to...
Republican lawmakers urge Congress to make Hyde Amendment permanent
WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and several other Republican leaders in the House asked their Democratic counterparts June 22 to take...
Nancy Pelosi’s remarks on cardinal’s letter sparks response from San Francisco...
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s archbishop said May 17 that the “positive reaction” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has expressed about a Vatican official’s letter...
Pro-life leaders call on Biden administration to keep Trump-era Title X...
WASHINGTON — The same day the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear a Mississippi appeal of a lower court’s decision to strike down...
Sign petition opposing repeal of Hyde Amendment, bishops urge Catholics
WASHINGTON — Diocesan Respect Life coordinators and the Pro-Life Secretariat of the U.S Conference of Catholic Bishops are encouraging Catholics to speak out against...
Forty-five years in, future of Hyde Amendment in Congress is uncertain
WASHINGTON — The Hyde Amendment, born in 1976, has had a fairly long congressional history, but it could be marked for extinction.
The amendment, which...