Kate Scanlon

A federal judge July 30 temporarily shielded four orders of women religious and Catholic healthcare ministries from enforcement of a New York state law allowing physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide.

Before Florida executed two inmates in one day July 28, the Catholic bishops of that state issued a pastoral letter urging Catholics to reflect on the Church’s moral opposition to the practice.

The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops on July 21 urged Gov. Ron DeSantis to stay two executions scheduled for July 28.

During his July 15 confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche took questions from senators on issues ranging from objections to the way the Department of Justice handled the release of the Epstein files to the way it has approached state challenges to a policy permitting distribution of mifepristone by mail.

Ahead of an upcoming hearing on his nomination to lead the Department of Justice, a national pro-life group urged Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche to side with states challenging a federal policy permitting mifepristone, sometimes called the abortion pill, to be dispensed through the mail.