Category: Sanctity of Life

Last week, the Lynchburg City Council voted 4–2 to pass a new zoning ordinance that places commonsense limits on where abortion facilities can operate. The measure requires any abortion clinic to stay at least 1,000 feet away from schools, churches, and neighborhoods, and requires a special use permit before any facility can open. This ordinance will go a long way in helping Lynchburg become a Safe Zone for Life!

West Virginia’s state senate voted last week to approve Senate Bill 173, which takes aim at out-of-state abortionists mailing the abortion drug mifepristone across state lines and violating West Virginia’s pro-life laws. The bill states, “The State of West Virginia has a compelling interest in protecting the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens and in ensuring that drugs distributed within this state are lawfully prescribed, dispensed, and regulated in accordance with the laws of this state.”

Rev. Marvin Ellison, who helps lead women into abortions as a volunteer inside a Planned Parenthood facility, has drawn attention for portraying abortion as “love” and as an action that shows a “high regard” for human life.

The body of a preborn baby believed to have been between 13 and 15 weeks gestation was found on February 13 by workers at a water treatment plant in Sumter County, South Carolina.

The abortion industry celebrated Valentine’s Day by sharing its deep love and devotion to killing preborn children, calling induced abortion the “ultimate form of love.”
Abortion groups took to social media on Saturday to celebrate Valentine’s Day with their love for abortion.
The Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, Jane’s Due Process, and Medical Students for Choice all shared posts celebrating abortion as “self-love” and “freedom.”

Emma Estrada knew it was a baby she was aborting, but ‘I chose my comedy career over motherhood,’ she said. When Estrada told her then-boyfriend Gabe that she was aborting his baby, she made it a joke. “Gabe became sick in the following days and didn’t talk much,” she writes.
She and Gabe broke up soon after, …

Archbishop Paul Coakley and Bishop Thomas Paprocki have issued recent statements supporting Bishop Kevin Rhodes’ call for Notre Dame to rescind the promotion of a rabidly pro-abortion academic.
“I fully support Bishop Kevin Rhoades in his challenge to Notre Dame to rectify its poor judgement in hiring a professor who openly stands against Catholic teaching when it comes to the sanctity of life, in this case protection of the unborn,” the archbishop tweeted on Friday.

Several Republican senators joined with Democrats to block the amendment, though some Republicans suggested they would support another version of the measure.
The fall of Roe v. Wade restored states’ prerogative to fully determine their own abortion policies for the first time in nearly half a century, but Wyoming’s ordeal highlights the continuing battles faced by pro-lifers at the state level.

Alabama has joined 21 States in filing a brief in support of Louisiana’s lawsuit challenging a Biden-era rule that expanded access to abortion drugs through mail and telehealth, despite contrary state laws.

I was re-reading “How did you go from a latent to an activated pro-lifer?” this morning and, as always, came away with excellent information from Secular Pro-Life. The subhead to Monica Snyder’s story was ‘What moves someone from being quietly pro-life to actively speaking out?”

‘On what would have been her 206th birthday, we recommit to the timeless truth she spent her life defending: that every human being is made in the holy image of God.’

A retired University of Notre Dame sociology professor has publicly declared he is “done” with the institution, accusing it of failing its Catholic mission amid ongoing controversy over the appointment of an outspoken pro-abortion advocate to lead one of its research institutes.