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Respect Life

Tuscan bishop laments passage of right-to-die law in Italy, calls it a ‘defeat for everyone’

February 15, 2025
By Junno Arocho Esteves
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News

The head of the Tuscan Bishops’ Conference said the passage of a new law in Italy allowing medically assisted suicide was “not an achievement, but a defeat for everyone.”

Red state death penalty repeal efforts emerge despite Trump’s order to expand use of the practice

February 11, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Efforts to repeal the death penalty have been introduced in two Republican-led states, with some lawmakers citing their Catholic faith as a factor in their opposition to capital punishment. The efforts come even as President Donald Trump has moved to expand the use of the practice.

African Catholics join forces against human trafficking in unprecedented campaign

February 10, 2025
By Ngala Killian Chimton
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News

Marches and Masses in more than 30 African countries were organized Feb. 8 to raise voices against human trafficking, marking the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, and kicking off a Jubilee Year campaign “Restoring Hope in Africa: A Jubilee Call to End Human Trafficking.”

Pardoned pro-lifers describe their legal ordeal, what lies ahead for their activism

February 10, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

On Jan. 23, the president pardoned Paulette Harlow and 22 other pro-life activists convicted of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinics Act, or FACE Act.

Strengthening religious practice could help reverse demographic crisis, says Irish study

February 9, 2025
By Sarah Mac Donald
OSV News
Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Respect Life, World News

A decline in religion will likely deepen Ireland’s demographic crisis, according to a new study by a pro-family and pro-life Irish institute.

Pro-life groups welcome British cardinal’s attack on ‘irresponsible’ assisted suicide bill

February 8, 2025
By Jonathan Luxmoore
OSV News
Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News

Pro-life groups welcomed comments by the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales bitterly criticizing attempts by government-aligned parliamentarians to rush through a bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide.

Attacker of Baltimore pro-life advocates found guilty of assault

February 7, 2025
By Katie V. Jones
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life

A jury in Baltimore Circuit Court found Patrick Brice guilty Feb. 6 on two counts of second-degree assault and two counts of reckless endangerment for attacking two pro-life supporters May 23, 2023, outside a Planned Parenthood facility on North Howard Street in Baltimore. 

Welcoming a child opens new world of joy, pope tells health workers

February 6, 2025
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News

Health care professionals who help expectant mothers have a vocation that is an ode to life, Pope Francis said.

Catholics, Hippocrates, and reforming American medicine 

February 6, 2025
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Health Care, Respect Life, The Catholic Difference

The willful participation of physicians and other medical professionals in the practice of abortion flatly contradicts the Hippocratic Oath — long the moral framework for sound medical practice — in its original form.

Nothing is worth sacrificing the life of a child, pope tells world leaders

February 3, 2025
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

It is unacceptable that a child’s right to life and a dignified childhood should be sacrificed to “the idols” of power, profit, ideology and nationalistic self-interest, Pope Francis told a group of world experts and leaders.

Senators grill RFK Jr. on abortion, vaccine views in HHS confirmation hearings

January 31, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News

In a pair of January confirmation hearings, senators considered President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services.

France’s Catholic prime minister wants to fight ‘end of life’ bill by splitting measure

January 30, 2025
By Caroline de Sury
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News

French Prime Minister François Bayrou wants to split an “end of life” bill to separate the issue of “active assistance in dying” from that of palliative care — a proposal seen as a smart attempt to give a pro-life approach to the legislation without antagonizing rival political sides.

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