Abortion, Weldon Act and Federal Funding

After Biden comments, U.S. bishops say they have ‘united position’ on abortion

By Kate Scanlon, OSV News/ The Pillar, February 1, 2023 WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops affirmed its "united position" in opposition to taxpayer funding for abortion procedures, invoking the teaching of Pope Francis, following recent remarks by President Joe... read more

Federal Court Blocks Biden Policy That Would Have Forced Christian Doctors to Do Abortions National

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews, August 10, 2021 A federal court has blocked a harmful Biden administration policy that would force Christian doctors and hospitals to kill babies in abortions. In June 2020, President Donald Trump issued a pro-life rule to protect pro-life Americans and help save... read more

Planned Parenthood Spent $271 Million in Federal Funding from 2016 to 2018, Report Reveals

The abortion giant continues to receive and spend substantial amounts of taxpayer dollars. By Lauretta Brown, National Catholic Register, July 27, 2021 A report published last month by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan research arm of Congress,... read more

Cardinals Cupich and Tobin Met With CDF Prefect in Late April

Sources have told the Register that the two cardinals met with Cardinal Luis Ladaria shortly before the CDF sent a letter to the US bishops on pro-abortion politicians receiving the Eucharist. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register. May12, 2021 VAICAN CITY — Cardinals Blase Cupich... read more

Tim Scott Blasts Biden for Claiming to be Catholic While Making Americans Fund Abortions

By Steven Ertelt, LifeSite News, April 29, 2021 Senator Tim Scott delivered the Republican Address to the Nation last night following the speech by Joe Biden to Congress. During his address, Scott criticized Biden for claiming to be a Catholic while, at the same time, forcing Americans to... read more

Catholic teaching on Communion applies to politicians who support abortion, too, Bishop Olmsted says

Catholic News Agency, Phoenix, Ariz., April 6, 2021 Catholic teaching sees the Eucharist as Christ’s transformative sacrifice on the cross and this Holy Communion must only be received worthily. This teaching is not partisan, but it certainly applies to political leaders who back abortion and... read more

The Misadventures of a Pro-life Senator

By Hadley Arkes, Catholic Thing, February 9, 2021 In the British comic Review in the 1960s, Beyond the Fringe, a commanding officer in the Royal Air Force sought to persuade a pilot to go on a kamikaze mission. “Smedley,” he said, “we need someone at this moment to make a [Grand] Futile... read more

SF Archbishop scolds Pelosi for attack on anti-abortion voters: She ‘does not speak for the Catholic Church’

Pelosi had said anti-abortion voters were 'willing to sell the whole democracy down the river.' By Adam Shaw, Fox News, January 22, 2021 The Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco issued a scathing statement Thursday in which he accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of impugning the motives... read more

Abortion Activists Attack Church, Harass Pro-Life People Mourning Babies Killed in Abortion

By Micaiah Bilger, January 22, 2021 Ohio police had to forcibly remove abortion activists from a pro-life mass Friday morning in Columbus where families with young children gathered to pray for unborn babies. The Columbus Dispatch reports about eight abortion activists disrupted the Respect... read more

Joe Biden Claims He Wants Unity, But He Just Called Pro-Life Americans “Extreme”

By David Andrusko, January 22, 2021 As we wrote in “Five Takeaways from President Biden’s Inaugural Address,” In his call for “unity,” President Trump contrasted what he said he will do with behaviors virtually no one would defend. But if you listened carefully and read the... read more

Joe Biden Celebrates Roe vs. Wade Decision That Has Killed 62 Million Babies in Abortions

Steven Ertelt, LifeSiteNews, January 22, 2021 Joe Biden today released a statement celebrating the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision that has resulted in killing 62 million babies abortions. The decision, handed down on January 22, 1973, overturned pro-life laws offering protection for... read more