Mexican pro-life groups question validity of high court’s abortion decision September 12, 2023By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The Mexican bishops’ conference expressed dismay with a recent Supreme Court ruling, decriminalizing abortion on the federal level. Along with several Mexican pro-life groups, they questioned the validity of the Sept. 6 decision, arguing it applies to the litigant and is not applicable nationwide.
UK teenager wants to fight for her life, but court denies her wish September 12, 2023By Simon Caldwell OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News A Catholic bioethics institute has criticized a court for denying an “alert and conscious” teenager the legal right to fight a move to put her on end-of-life care against her will.
Abortions rise in most U.S. states where the procedure remains legal, data shows September 11, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Legal abortions most likely increased in the United States in the first six months of 2023 compared with 2020, according to a New York Times analysis of data from the Guttmacher Institute, which opposes abortion restrictions.
California’s rising assisted suicide rate alarms Catholics September 10, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News When California in 2021 relaxed its physician-assisted death rules — easing access to the lethal means for residents to take their own lives — several lawmakers behind the change cited a desire to aid the terminally ill, invoking a sort of legislative altruism.
Across the nation, aborted children will be remembered and mourned September 8, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children takes place Sept. 9, with services and gatherings at some 225 locations across the country. About 56 of those locations are gravesites for the remains of aborted children, while the majority are memorials.
‘Abortion didn’t grant us freedom,’ woman testifies, as thousands march for life in London September 6, 2023By Simon Caldwell OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News More than 7,000 people took to the streets of London for the annual March for Life, which had as its theme “Freedom to Live.”
Mexico’s high court overturns state abortion ban; move could bring end to restrictions nationwide September 5, 2023By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Mexico’s Supreme Court overturned a state-level abortion ban, a decision observers say could hasten the removal of restrictions on the procedure nationwide.
Relocated Baltimore pregnancy center ‘hits all the marks’ September 3, 2023By Kurt Jensen Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life “Women traveling to the abortion clinic will see our center first and come for the free services, free ultrasound or simply a second opinion,” Katherine Manion Kelly said.
State abortion limits become topic of debate among candidates and activists September 3, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News After activists for legal abortion pushed back on some Republican presidential candidates’ criticism of some state abortion laws as being without limits, a prominent pro-life group cast those arguments as disingenuous and said some states actually do not limit the procedure in law.
Five pro-life activists sent to federal prison for blocking Washington abortion clinic August 31, 2023By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News After a raucous jury trial, five pro-life activists face as many as 11 years in federal prison for convictions to conspire to blockade a Washington abortion clinic in 2020.
Group walks, prays for end to abortion as it kicks off national pro-life relay in Manhattan August 30, 2023By Armando Machado OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The national kickoff for the annual A-Cross America Relay for Life, began early Aug. 26 in Manhattan, with a group walking and praying for the end of abortion.
NBC: Virginia governor may seek 15-week abortion ban if GOP takes Legislature August 29, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin will seek the passage of a 15-week abortion ban if Republicans gain control of the state’s General Assembly this fall, NBC News reported.
