Pro-life advocates call on Trump, Congress to fully defund Planned Parenthood March 28, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News A coalition of pro-life groups went to the U.S. Capitol March 27 to urge Congress and President Donald Trump’s administration to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood, shortly before the Supreme Court is set to consider a case concerning that funding.
Patrick Brice to be retried for first-degree assault charges outside Planned Parenthood March 26, 2025By Katie V. Jones OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life Patrick Brice, of Baltimore, will be retried for a first-degree assault charge on Mark Crosby, the then-73-year-old abortion protestor Brice pushed, punched and kicked in the face in front of a Planned Parenthood facility in Baltimore May 26, 2023.
U.S. lawmakers push anti-discrimination bill to protect pregnancy resource centers March 26, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, World News The language of the latest incarnation of the Let Pregnancy Centers Serve Act, a bill aimed at protecting more than 2,700 pregnancy resource centers nationwide from federal and state interference, is not radically different than the language of the one introduced in Congress last year.
Princeton’s Robert George reflects on ‘Evangelium Vitae’ 30 years on March 26, 2025By Charles C. Camosy OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life Robert P. George, McCormick professor of jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, recently spoke with OSV News’ Charlie Camosy about how St. John Paul II’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae,” released 30 years ago, provided a pro-life vision that remains relevant today.
Spanish Church rallies Catholics against ‘demographic winter’ of abortion March 25, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Spanish bishops marked International Day for Life March 25 by demanding a better environment for “stable families,” as pro-life campaigners rallied in Madrid against promoting abortion in the traditionally Catholic country.
30 years later: St. John Paul II’s enduring challenge to culture in ‘Evangelium Vitae’ March 23, 2025By John M. Haas OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Respect Life Pope St. John Paul II could well be called the “apostle of life.” He spent his entire pontificate boldly proclaiming the inviolability of innocent human life.
Paxton files first criminal charges for alleged violation of Texas’ abortion restrictions March 18, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News A midwife has been arrested and charged after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleged she performed abortions illegal under that state’s law, marking the first criminal charges brought under its near-total abortion ban.
4 pro-life activists found guilty, spared jail time for N.J. abortion clinic ‘rescue’ event March 17, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Four pro-life activists, including two pardoned by President Donald Trump in January for earlier convictions under the FACE Act, were found guilty of trespassing March 14 for their 2019 “rescue” at a New Jersey abortion clinic. However, they will not face jail time.
Expanding child tax credits seen as a pro-life, anti-poverty lifeline for families March 15, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Social Justice, World News After 2025, the federal tax credit is scheduled to drop to just $1,000 per qualifying child.
Mexican bishop decry ‘cruelest’ expression of violence as cartel extermination camp discovered March 14, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News The Mexican bishops’ conference expressed outrage over the discovery of an extermination camp operated by a drug cartel, calling it “one of the cruelest expressions of evil and human misery that we’ve seen in the country,” and alleging such sites exist in other parts of Mexico.
Oregon archbishop pens pastoral in response to governor’s abortion proclamation March 14, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Darkness “doesn’t get the final word,” and Christ’s call to “step out of the lie” and “choose life” remains the same, said Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Ore., following that state’s decision to officially celebrate abortion providers.
Maryland Catholic Conference issues action alerts on abortion legislation March 14, 2025By Gerry Jackson Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Maryland Catholic Conference, Maryland General Assembly, News, Respect Life The MCC, which represents bishops serving the three Catholic dioceses in the state (Baltimore, Washington and Wilmington, Del.), is concerned about legislation that runs contrary to Catholic teaching on abortion and healthcare ethics.
