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Respect Life

New gender law takes effect in April after Ohio lawmakers override DeWine’s veto

January 26, 2024
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Ohio lawmakers voted Jan. 24 to override Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s recent veto of legislation that bans certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender and also prohibits athletes from competing on sports teams corresponding with their self-perceived gender identity opposite their biological sex.

Supreme Court OKs Alabama’s first nitrogen gas execution decried by faith leaders

January 25, 2024
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News

The Supreme Court Jan. 24 rejected an appeal by death-row inmate Kenneth Smith, whose planned execution by the state of Alabama — the first known execution by nitrogen gas — was openly decried by more than 100 Alabama faith leaders just days earlier.

Biden administration marks Roe anniversary with new abortion initiatives

January 24, 2024
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

On the 51st anniversary of the now-overturned Roe v. Wade decision, President Joe Biden called for the restoration of Roe in federal law, and pledged his administration would take new steps to “protect access to safe and legal medication abortion.”

Physician-assisted suicide next front of pro-life cause, Cardinal O’Malley says

January 23, 2024
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News

The pro-life cause will confront new challenges in the coming decades, with physician-assisted suicide in particular emerging as a growing threat to human life, Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley of Boston told attendees of the 25th annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life Jan. 20.

Marist Poll finds majority in U.S. ‘pro-choice,’ willing to support some abortion limits

January 23, 2024
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Although most Americans describe themselves as “pro-choice,” a majority also would support some legal limits on abortion, as well as conscience protections for health care workers who do not wish to participate in those procedures, according to a new Marist Poll sponsored by the Knights of Columbus.

Keep advocating for life ‘from womb to tomb’ even when laws don’t, bishop urges

January 23, 2024
By Theresa Cisneros
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News

Auxiliary Bishop Matthew G. Elshoff compared California’s 2022 decision to enshrine a right to abortion up to the point of delivery into the state constitution to the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution did not guarantee the rights of American citizenship to people of African-American descent, even if they were no longer slaves.

Five reasons why I’m still marching for life

January 23, 2024
By Father Patrick Briscoe
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life

In the wake of the Dobbs decision, the March for Life is not just a celebration but a rallying call. It’s a reminder that our work is far from over

Church’s surrogacy teaching rooted in the primacy of the rights of the child

January 22, 2024
By Maria Wiering
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

“Donum Vitae” is a document that, nearly 40 years ago, made explicit the church’s teaching about in vitro fertilization and related practices, including gestational surrogacy — a teaching that in January 2024 made headlines after Pope Francis called for a worldwide ban on surrogacy while speaking with members of the diplomatic corps assigned to the Holy See.

Amid cold and snow, national March for Life pledges solidarity with moms and children

January 19, 2024
By Peter Jesserer Smith
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Against gray skies and falling snow, thousands of people flocked Jan. 19 to the nation’s capital for the national March for Life, gathering them under the theme “for every woman, for every child,” showing their resolve amid the piercing cold to make abortion eventually “unthinkable” in the U.S.

Young people from Archdiocese of Baltimore among thousands at ‘Life Fest’ rally

January 19, 2024
By Adriana Montes
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life

Life Fest, held at the D.C. Armory, was sponsored by the Sisters for Life and the Knights of Columbus.

With Christ at center, pro-life efforts will persevere, says U.S. bishops’ pro-life chair

January 19, 2024
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Jesus Christ’s words in the Gospel reading for Jan. 18, “I am with you always until the end of the age,” are critical as “an instruction for how to live in this broken world” and “bring goodness to it,” the U.S. bishops’ pro-life chairman said in his homily at the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life.

Lifting children out of poverty is key element of ‘consistent ethic of life,’ say speakers

January 19, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Social Justice, World News

The proposed enhanced Child Tax Credit released Jan. 16 by a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill received an enthusiastic, if guarded, response from members of a Georgetown University panel held the same day.

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