Respect Life

The University of Notre Dame Law School hosted a four-day event to promote the abolition of the death penalty. Its March 24-27 Death Penalty Abolition Week brought to campus nationally known and respected opponents of the death penalty.

Bobby Schindler spoke about Terri Schiavo ahead of the 20th anniversary of her death — a death that followed a years-long legal battle that made international headlines and captured the attention of then-President George W. Bush, U.S. members of Congress and even the Vatican.

Outside those prison grounds and across the street a group of about 100 death penalty opponents held a prayerful vigil in response to state-sanctioned murder happening behind the prison walls.

A midwife has been arrested and charged after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleged she performed abortions illegal under that state’s law, marking the first criminal charges brought under its near-total abortion ban.