A list of key pro-life and pro-family news and views.
The LifeSite team is constantly scanning the news for important developments on the key issues of the day, and there is always significantly more than we are able to cover. We are considering offering these “news notes” as a new regular feature, linking to credible information that we believe will interest readers. We welcome reader feedback at [email protected].
Abortion
- Priests for Life’s Janet Morana defends the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act against pro-life critics who oppose it over rape and incest exceptions. (National Catholic Register)
- A judge has ruled that Missouri’s 72-hour abortion waiting period is constitutional, rejecting an emergency motion from Planned Parenthood. (Daily Caller)
Catholic
- Professor Edward Feser takes on various defenders of Pope Francis’ claim that capital punishment is “contrary to the Gospel.” (Catholic World Report)
- An American pastor shares a first-hand account of how Pope Francis’ ambiguous teachings on marriage has confused the faithful. (Crisis)
- Archbishop Charles Chaput led a group of pro-lifers at 40 Days for Life outside Planned Parenthood on Monday. (Video)
- The Texas bishops are criticizing the ACLU for its fight to force the U.S. government into allowing an abortion on a teen immigrant.
Liberal clampdown on conservatives
- An LGBT “fair” at a Methodist college in Ohio has banned a pro-life group’s table for not promoting “sex positivity.” (Students for Life)
- The conservative group PragerU is suing Google for censoring and demonetizing some of their Youtube videos.
- Jennifer Roback Morse explains why Big Business does not want to work with social conservatives. (The Stream)
- Ken Stern, former CEO of NPR, says he “embedded” himself in Republicans’ lives for a year, and it has shown him how extensively liberal “groupthink” is biasing mainstream news.
Family
- The liberal Ninth Circuit of Appeals in San Francisco has allowed a challenge to California’s 145-year-old law banning prostitution.
- Ivanka Trump was in Pennsylvania this week stumping for an expanded child tax credit. (Video)
- A philosophy professor and “bioethics” expert argues that there’s a “moral case against procreation.”
- The UK government is opposing the use of “pregnant women” in UN treaties on the grounds that the language excludes transgender “men” who have given birth. (Daily Wire)
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