Respect Life

Despite its growing use, the abortion pill’s safety has been repeatedly called into question by pro-life doctors and advocates since the FDA’s approval in 2000 of mifepristone.

North Carolina’s Legislature May 16 overrode the Democratic governor’s veto of a 12-week abortion ban, allowing the measure to be enacted. The bill, an outlier among states that have passed abortion restrictions since Dobbs, now becomes law despite a pressure campaign from Gov. Roy Cooper for lawmakers to reject it.

“We see fostering and adoption, clearly, as a very significant pro-life issue.”

Through a homelessness services agency, Verriotto was connected with Good Counsel Homes, a Secaucus, New Jersey-based ministry that has been providing residential care for homeless pregnant women for almost four decades.

Auxiliary Bishop John Sherrington of Westminster said the creation of babies by mitochondrial donation treatment (MDT) was unethical because the process involved the destruction of two embryos to create a single new life.