Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Democrats failed on Tuesday to get enough votes to stop a Republican filibuster against the DISCLOSE Act. That's the campaign finance reform bill pro-life groups oppose because they say it would place stringent limits on their ability to communicate to the public about legislation and elections. more >>
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A prominent congressman who monitors international issues told a hearing today in the nation's capital that, as international observers monitor attaining the Millennium Development Goals, they need to remember that abortion does not lower maternal mortality for women. more >>
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Congressman Chris Smith, who has led the pro-life battles in the House of Representatives for decades, will receive the Wilberforce Leadership Award on Thursday from Students for Life of America. The award will be presented at SFLA's third annual Summer Social in Washington. more >>
Topeka, KS (LifeNews.com) -- The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts has filed an eleven-count recommendation that late-term abortion practitioner Ann Kristin Neuhaus be disciplined. Neuhaus allegedly violated the Healing Arts Act concerning abortion referrals she made to late abortion practitioner George Tiller. more >>
Birmingham, AL (LifeNews.com) -- Officials at the University of Alabama-Birmingham are coming under fire for arresting pro-life young adults hoping to share the pro-life perspective with students on campus. Members of the pro-life group Survivors returned to the streets of Birmingham last Thursday to participate in a series of pro-life events. more >>
America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. … It has portrayed the greatest of gifts – a child – as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience.
~Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Abortion
The unborn child is, perhaps, the most defenseless and vulnerable person whose right to life is legally taken away in the United States. Catholic social teaching clearly includes the unborn child as a person whose dignity, because it is a creation of God, is sacred. Our educational programs and our legislative advocacy are based on this principle. We work towards assisting women in problem pregnancies. We show compassion and forgiveness to women who have had abortions. We work, legislatively, to decrease abortions and to offer alternatives.
