Respect Life

Recent court cases involving pro-life activists at abortion clinics, an immigration protest inside a Minnesota church and a new application of a 1994 federal law, the FACE Act, show how legal realities have changed in one year.

New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul Feb. 6 made good on her promise that early this year she would sign a bill into law allowing physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide.

The executive director of the Illinois bishops’ conference and an Illinois pro-life leader have decried the state’s call for funding to support Illinois’ abortion tourism industry after recent data indicated a slight weakening in the number of out-of-state women coming to the state to abort their unborn children.

The Virginia General Assembly has sent a sweeping amendment enshrining a “fundamental right” to abortion in the Constitution of Virginia to a statewide referendum on the November ballot.

A key national pro-life group has accused the U.S. Department of Justice of undermining Louisiana’s efforts to roll back the Biden administration’s eased restrictions on mifepristone when it asked a court to pause the Pelican State’s challenge to that policy.

Personal testimonies like Bishop Seitz’s at the OneLife event highlighted the challenges, responsibilities — and blessings — in being pro-life in today’s environment. Apart from abortion, the Jan. 24 event at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels also highlighted other life issues, among them immigration, drug abuse and assisted suicide.