The four pro-life advocates honored Aug. 11 at the annual “People of Life” awards built legacies for their work protesting outside abortion clinics, encouraging Black Catholic leaders for a culture of life, and opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide.
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Patrick Brice sentenced to home detention for attacks on elderly pro-life supporters
Baltimore Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant sentenced Patrick Brice Aug. 7 to one-year home detention and three years’ probation for his attack on two pro-life advocates.
Catholic family experts tie marriage to dropping U.S. fertility rate
To explain the dropping U.S. fertility rate, Catholic fertility and family policy experts are pointing to marriage.
Trump administration moves to reinstate VA health policy fully excluding abortion
The Trump administration said Aug. 1 it would revoke its predecessor’s policy rule that included abortion as a covered health benefit for veterans and their dependents, and return to a policy of fully excluding abortion and abortion-counseling.
Catholic bioethicist raises ethical concerns with ‘three parent embryos’
While the Catholic Church has consistently voiced major ethical concerns over in vitro fertilization, or IVF, there are now many additional ethical issues to address as modern science continues to explore areas of human reproduction, including with the creation of “three parent” embryos in an effort to prevent mitochondrial disease.
Planned Parenthood defunding remains in question amid legal challenges
Whether Planned Parenthood will ultimately be stripped of its federal funding remained in question amid ongoing lawsuits over a provision in President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda that would cut those funds for one year.
Ireland’s abortion rates rise 62 percent over 5 years; Catholic advocates call it ‘a tragedy’
Abortions in Ireland spiked in the space of just five years, government figures have revealed.
Judge blocks defunding of some, but not all, Planned Parenthood groups
A federal judge on July 21 extended an order blocking enforcement of a provision in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which President Donald Trump signed into law July 4, that would have stopped Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments for a year.
Is NFP finally breaking into medical schools?
Though many NFP organizations do a great job educating couples about their fertility, FABM users often run into difficulties when they share their knowledge in the exam room.
Nearly one in three conceptions in England and Wales end in abortion, government figures reveal
Nearly one in three conceptions in England and Wales end in abortion, newest government figures have revealed.
Judge blocks, for now, Planned Parenthood defunding provision backed by bishops
A federal judge placed a temporary restraining order on a provision in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which President Donald Trump signed into law July 4, that would have stopped Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments for a year.
Report: US abortions continue post-Dobbs rise in part due to telehealth
The rate of abortions in the U.S. continued to increase in 2024 following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, according to a report by #WeCount, a research project by the Society of Family Planning, a group that supports legal abortion.