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Respect Life

Catholic family experts tie marriage to dropping U.S. fertility rate

August 7, 2025
By Katie Yoder
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Respect Life, World News

To explain the dropping U.S. fertility rate, Catholic fertility and family policy experts are pointing to marriage.

Trump administration moves to reinstate VA health policy fully excluding abortion

August 4, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News

The Trump administration said Aug. 1 it would revoke its predecessor’s policy rule that included abortion as a covered health benefit for veterans and their dependents, and return to a policy of fully excluding abortion and abortion-counseling.

three parent embryos

Catholic bioethicist raises ethical concerns with ‘three parent embryos’

August 3, 2025
By Charlie Camosy
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

While the Catholic Church has consistently voiced major ethical concerns over in vitro fertilization, or IVF, there are now many additional ethical issues to address as modern science continues to explore areas of human reproduction, including with the creation of “three parent” embryos in an effort to prevent mitochondrial disease.

Planned Parenthood defunding remains in question amid legal challenges

August 1, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News

Whether Planned Parenthood will ultimately be stripped of its federal funding remained in question amid ongoing lawsuits over a provision in President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda that would cut those funds for one year.

Ireland’s abortion rates rise 62 percent over 5 years; Catholic advocates call it ‘a tragedy’

July 24, 2025
By Simon Caldwell
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Abortions in Ireland spiked in the space of just five years, government figures have revealed.

Judge blocks defunding of some, but not all, Planned Parenthood groups

July 23, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

A federal judge on July 21 extended an order blocking enforcement of a provision in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which President Donald Trump signed into law July 4, that would have stopped Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments for a year.

Is NFP finally breaking into medical schools?

July 21, 2025
By Zoey Maraist
OSV News
Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Respect Life, World News

Though many NFP organizations do a great job educating couples about their fertility, FABM users often run into difficulties when they share their knowledge in the exam room.

Nearly one in three conceptions in England and Wales end in abortion, government figures reveal

July 14, 2025
By Simon Caldwell
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News

Nearly one in three conceptions in England and Wales end in abortion, newest government figures have revealed.

Planned Parenthood

Judge blocks, for now, Planned Parenthood defunding provision backed by bishops

July 9, 2025
By Simone Orendain
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

A federal judge placed a temporary restraining order on a provision in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which President Donald Trump signed into law July 4, that would have stopped Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments for a year.

Report: US abortions continue post-Dobbs rise in part due to telehealth

June 28, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

The rate of abortions in the U.S. continued to increase in 2024 following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, according to a report by #WeCount, a research project by the Society of Family Planning, a group that supports legal abortion.

In retrial, judge acquits man charged in assault on pro-life protester

June 27, 2025
By Patricia Zapor
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life

A Baltimore Circuit judge June 25 acquitted Patrick Brice, 28, in a retrial over whether the injuries he inflicted on pro-life protester Mark Crosby in a May 26, 2023 incident were intentional.

Supreme Court rules states can deny Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood

June 27, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 26 that there is not a private right to bring a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s decision to end Planned Parenthood’s participation in the state’s Medicaid program. The ruling will likely allow other states to remove Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs.

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