Tag: Abortion
Florida sidewalk advocacy aims to reach women planning on abortion
WEST PARK, Fla. — Libby Johnson, a retired delivery room nurse, has prayed near a Miramar, Fla., abortion clinic for the past six years...
U.S. Supreme Court term features important cases on abortion, concealed handguns,...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court's new term, starting Oct. 4, returns to its standard routine: hearing arguments in person and taking on hot-button...
Bishops must handle communion disputes as shepherds, not with censures, Pope...
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM SLOVAKIA — The debate about denying Communion to politicians who support abortion must be handled in a pastoral way,...
Mexican Supreme Court strikes down law protecting all life from conception,...
MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican Supreme Court has invalidated a clause in a state constitution that provided protection of life "from the moment in...
Law in Texas restricting abortions after six weeks survives test in...
WASHINGTON — In a late-night decision Sept. 1, the Supreme Court ruled against blocking a Texas law banning abortions at six weeks of pregnancy.
The...
Memorial service for aborted children set for noon Sept. 18 at...
On Saturday, Sept. 18, pro-life Americans throughout the country will gather at the gravesites of aborted babies and other memorial sites dedicated in their...
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...
Mississippi’s attorney general presents brief urging Supreme Court to overturn Roe...
WASHINGTON -- Many would like to believe the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion settled the issue "once and for...
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...