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Respect Life

Alabama governor signs IVF bill pro-life groups call ‘ill-considered’ and ‘unjust’

March 7, 2024
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Alabama’s Republican Gov. Kay Ivey March 6 signed into law a bill passed by lawmakers to grant legal protection to in vitro fertilization clinics after a ruling by that state’s Supreme Court found that frozen embryos qualify as children under the state law’s wrongful death law.

Catholics call for vigilance as more legislatures advance medically assisted suicide bills

March 6, 2024
By Kimberly Heatherington
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

While those who support euthanasia and medically assisted suicide emphasize empowerment and control, Catholic opponents argue an undeniably dangerous and dystopian dimension has begun to emerge in the sometimes profit-driven realms of health care insurance and medicine: the cost-benefit ratio of prescribing death for terminal patients versus palliative care.

French bishops call for fasting, prayer as abortion is enshrined in country’s constitution

March 5, 2024
By Caroline de Sury
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

After several months of legislative process, the French Congress, a special body composed of both chambers of parliament, revised the country’s 1958 constitution to enshrine women’s “guaranteed freedom” to abort in Article 34, making France the first country in the world to explicitly include the right to abortion in its constitution.

Former Planned Parenthood leader shares conversion story at 40 Days for Life event

March 5, 2024
By Sharon Crews Hare
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life

Ramona Trevino shared her story during five recent prayer vigils in Maryland sponsored by 40 Days for Life.

Radio Interview: Pro-life update in the Archdiocese of Baltimore

March 4, 2024
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Respect Life

In advance of the March 11 Maryland March for Life in Annapolis, the Catholic Review talks with Erin Younkins about the many ways Catholics in the Archdiocese of Baltimore are supporting a culture of life.

Maryland March for Life is March 11

March 4, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life

The annual Maryland March for Life begins with a 4:30 p.m. youth rally on the campus of St. Mary on Duke of Gloucester Street. Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Adam J. Parker will celebrate a 5:30 p.m. Mass in the church that will be concelebrated by Washington Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala.

Alabama House, Senate pass similar bills to safeguard IVF; once reconciled, bill goes to governor

March 4, 2024
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Alabama lawmakers in both the state’s House and Senate Feb. 29 passed similar bills to implement legal protections to in vitro fertilization clinics following a ruling by that state’s Supreme Court that frozen embryos qualify as children under the state law’s wrongful death law.

Walgreens, CVS pharmacies to begin dispensing pills used for abortion, early miscarriage

March 2, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Two major U.S. pharmacy chains have announced they will begin dispensing the drug mifepristone, which has been prescribed for both abortion and early miscarriage, within the coming days.

Texas executes death-row inmate despite allegations of false testimony at trial

February 29, 2024
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News

Ivan Cantu was executed Feb. 28 by the state of Texas despite claims that the Texan’s 2001 conviction for killing James Mosqueda and Amy Kitchen, his cousin and his cousin’s fiancee, was based on false testimony.

Christian minister says nitrogen execution he witnessed is slow, ‘spiritually violent’ torture

February 29, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Rev. Hood said he and the other witnesses “were very under-informed, very underprepared” for the execution method.

Q&A: Why does the church oppose IVF? What can be done about frozen embryos?

February 27, 2024
By Father Francis J. Hoffman
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Respect Life, World News

When the Alabama Supreme Court recently recognized the personhood of embryos, it gave legal standing to something the church has clearly established: An embryo is a human being and should be treated with the dignity and rights due to all people, especially the most vulnerable who cannot speak for themselves.

Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are children under wrongful death law

February 22, 2024
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos qualify as children under state law has raised complex legal questions about artificial reproductive practices opposed by the Catholic Church.

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