Life News

State March for Life draws hundreds to Annapolis after 40 years of legal abortion
Mar 13 2013
Marchers observed the state's annual March for Life March 11 in Annapolis.

Consumerist conception
Mar 10 2013
In addition to unleashing uncertain genetic consequences, assisted reproductive technologies including egg and sperm donation carry other medical and emotional consequences for the donors and the resulting children.

Making babies: In vitro fertilization’s Pandora’s Box
Mar 10 2013
Despite the church’s teaching against assisted reproductive technology, Catholics are among those turning to IVF as an answer to infertility.

After death penalty repeal passes Senate, MCC tells House to move bill ‘across finish line’
Mar 06 2013
The Maryland Catholic Conference called the Senate passage of a bill to repeal the state’s death penalty March 6 “a momentous vote.”

Death penalty repeal, gun control in State House spotlight
Mar 05 2013
The Maryland Catholic Conference was optimistic a bill to repeal Maryland’s death penalty would soon pass the Senate.

Center for Pregnancy Concerns opens first west Baltimore site in Arbutus
Feb 18 2013
As thousands of Ravens fans celebrated the Super Bowl win with a parade and rallies Feb. 4, another milestone was commemorated on East Street, as the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns held a grand opening for its fourth center.

State officials examining death that is allegedly tied to Germantown abortion clinic
Feb 15 2013
Pro-life groups held a vigil and press conference Feb. 11 near the Germantown office of abortionist Dr. LeRoy Carhart, offering prayers for a 29-year-old woman who, along with her unborn baby, died, allegedly after undergoing a late-term abortion last week at the upper Montgomery County abortion facility.

Archbishop Lori advocates repeal, says death penalty offers ‘a tragic illusion’
Feb 14 2013
Archbishop William E. Lori testified to support repeal of Maryland’s death penalty Feb. 14.

Death penalty repeal advocates think 2013 is the year, but not all Catholics agree
Feb 04 2013
For years, death penalty repeal advocates have been working to abolish capital punishment in the state.

Forty years after Roe v. Wade, young lead the fight for life
Jan 25 2013
Young people from the Archdiocese of Baltimore were among the thousands marching for life Jan. 25.

Cardinal Stafford: 40 years after Roe, ‘I weep for the United States’
Jan 25 2013
Forty years of legalized abortion have profoundly demoralized American society, said U.S. Cardinal J. Francis Stafford.

New York couple recalls their nearly 40 years of marching for life
Jan 25 2013
Bill and Peggy Devlin have taken a long view of the March for Life.

Young to old participate in annual March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Jan 25 2013
Area schools are among those participating in the annual March for Life.

Roe anniversary about ‘untold story’ of abortion’s victims, says Smith
Jan 23 2013
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith Jan. 22 struck a solemn note with an allusion to the song “Empty Tables, Empty Chairs” from “Les Miserables” during a Capitol Hill news conference to mark the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

Pro-lifer says activism has shown her ‘despair’ in abortion ‘mindset’
Jan 17 2013
Pro-life activist Lila Rose was a just child when she first became aware of the tragedy of abortion.