Culture of Life

Are Human Embryos Human Beings?

03/19/2024 at 4:10 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Robert P. George, National Review, March 18, 2024 Whether human embryos are human beings is a question resolved by human embryology and developrnental biology. Among the constants in hurnan history is this: When people want to justify killing, enslaving, or otherwise abusing a class... read more

More Human Embryos Destroyed Through IVF Than Abortion Every Year

03/13/2024 at 7:25 AM By Kevin Edward White
The Catholic Church opposes IVF because it separates the marriage act from procreation and destroys embryonic human life. By Tyler Arnold/CNA, March 13, 2024 An Alabama Supreme Court ruling that recognized the personhood of embryonic life sparked a nationwide debate about in vitro... read more

Global perspectives on the Alabama ruling, IVF and when cells become a person

03/11/2024 at 5:02 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Jennifer Chesak, Features correspondent, BBC, February 26, 2024 Alabama Supreme Court ruling raises questions about the definition of 'embryo' and whether fertilisation dictates 'personhood'. Here, medical consensus from around the world. In a recent court case over embryos accidentally... read more

How the Alabama In Vitro Fertilization Case Exposes the Wild West of Assisted Reproductive Technologies

03/01/2024 at 8:45 AM By Kevin Edward White
COMMENTARY: If nothing else results, the facts of the case give an indication of the present state of lawlessness within the $8-billion child-manufacturing industry. Father Roger Landry, National Catholic Register, February 28, 2024 The Feb. 16 ruling by the Supreme Court of Alabama, which... read more

In mourning, actor Gary Sinise extols his son’s musical legacy, love of the Catholic faith

02/29/2024 at 6:31 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Diego Lopez Marina/ Ctholic News Agency/ACI Prensa Staff, February 29, 2024 Gary Sinise, the Catholic actor who played Lt. Dan in the 1994 movie “Forrest Gump,” announced the death of his 33-year-old son Mac, the victim of a rare form of cancer. Sinise, also known for his starring... read more

Republicans have an answer on IVF. It’s only raising more questions.

02/27/2024 at 7:00 PM By Kevin Edward White
At the same time that they are professing support for IVF, dozens of congressional Republicans have signed onto so-called personhood legislation. By Alice Miranda Ollstein, Megan Messerly, Politico, February 27, 2024 Republicans are lining up to pledge their support for in-vitro... read more

Speaker Mike Johnson Condemns Abortion: Every Baby Has the Right to Life

01/22/2024 at 5:42 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, LifeNews, January 22, 2024 Speaker Mike Johnson gave the following remarks at Friday’s March for Life. Thank you so much. Good afternoon and welcome to the Nation’s Capital. We are delighted that you’re here and really sorry about the weather... read more

It’s cold and snowing in D.C. But the March for Life goes on — after Roe ends

01/19/2024 at 8:46 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Jaclyn Diaz, NPR/ WBEZ/ January 19, 2024 Thousands of anti-abortion activists met Friday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for the 51st annual March for Life — the second such rally since the end of Roe v. Wade in America. Marchers young and old from across... read more

Texas Judge Authorizes Killing Disabled Unborn Baby in Medically Unnecessary Abortion

12/07/2023 at 8:05 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Kim Schwartz, LifeNews, December 7, 2023 A Texas judge deemed Thursday that a Houston doctor can ignore clear medical standards in state law to abort an unborn child. The Center for Reproductive Rights brought a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of Dr. Damla Karsan and Kate Cox, a Dallas... read more

Baby Indi Was an Innocent Victim of the Culture of Death

11/30/2023 at 3:20 PM By Kevin Edward White
How could a court reach such a decision? How could doctors decide that this child’s life was not worth saving? By Charles Lewis, National Catholic Register, November 30, 2023 By now there have been thousands of words written about Baby Indi Gregory, the 8-month-old girl who passed away... read more

Dobbs was no pyrrhic victory: tens of thousands of lives have been saved from abortion

11/24/2023 at 10:48 PM By Kevin Edward White
Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSite News, November 24, 2023 It is true that since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, the pro-life movement has faced a series of challenges. Most notably, the abortion movement has won seven straight abortion referendums, highlighting their advantage in direct democracy... read more

Fight over Texas anti-abortion transport bans reaches biggest battlegrounds yet

10/23/2023 at 2:52 PM By Kevin Edward White

How to Build a Catholic Town

10/12/2023 at 10:28 PM By Kevin Edward White

Bishop calls for ‘radical solidarity’ with pregnant, parenting women

09/20/2023 at 9:15 AM By Kevin Edward White

You can take Italians out of church, but not the church out of Italians

08/26/2023 at 2:39 PM By Kevin Edward White

Cardinal Ladaria: Truth about humanity and sexuality doesn’t change because of changes in ideology

05/24/2023 at 4:19 PM By Kevin Edward White

Conjoined twins born, baptized, and confirmed before passing

05/23/2023 at 3:39 PM By Kevin Edward White

NFL Kicker Harrison Butker Offers Grads Some ‘Hard Truths’ About Family, Faith and Cancel Culture

05/09/2023 at 7:31 AM By Kevin Edward White

Supreme Court Upholds Pro-Life Law Requiring Proper Burial or Cremation for Babies Killed in Abortions

05/01/2023 at 3:21 PM By Kevin Edward White

Pregnant US inmate seeks jail release because fetus is ‘innocent’

02/24/2023 at 12:05 PM By Kevin Edward White