Pro-lifer sentenced to 41 months in jail on FACE Act charges after Biden DOJ prosecution
(Emily Mangiaracina. Life Site News)
A pro-life advocate was sentenced to 41 months in jail (3.4 years) on Wednesday morning after trying to save the lives of unborn babies by blocking the entrance to a Planned Parenthood abortion center in Manhattan.
Abortion, immigration set to be key issues in presidential campaign
(Heidi Schlumpf. National Ctholic Reporter)
Wisconsin billionaire Diane Hendricks took to the stage on the last night of the Republican National Convention to tell her rags-to-riches story that began with her growing up on a dairy farm and ended with her as one of America’s richest self-made women.
California parents stop ‘wellbeing center’ linked to Planned Parenthood on high school campus
(Life Site).
Thanks to relentless parental pressure, John Glenn High School in Norwalk, California, has decided not to renew an agreement to have a ‘Wellbeing Center’ linked to Planned Parenthood on its campus.
Obispo critica que discusión Código Penal se reduzca a tema del aborto
(Miguel Ponce. El Caribe).
El obispo auxiliar de la arquidiócesis de Santiago, monseñor Carlos Tomás Morel Diplán lamentó el tranque para aprobar el Código Penal y critica que todo se reduzca al tema del aborto.
(Viola Traeder. DW).
En 2007, la Ciudad de México fue pionera en la legalización del aborto en el país. Desde entonces, solo 13 estados mexicanos han seguido su ejemplo. ¿Por qué es tan complicado despenalizar la interrupción del embarazo?
Priest refuses to give communion to politician who voted in favor of abortion
(Eoin Shortiss. Corkbeo).
A Cork TD was refused communion at a fellow party member’s funeral because of ‘his role in Irish abortion legislation’.
Fr. Gabriel Burke refused to give Fine Gael Minister Colm Burke the sacrament at a requiem mass at the St. Patrick’s Chuch in Whitechurch on Friday morning, July 12. The priest said he believed that any politician who voted for abortion in Dáil Éireann was “participating in evil” and should not be allowed to receive the rite.
Nigeria bishops warn EU deal could push abortion, gender rights on Africa
(Ngala Killian Chimtom. Crux).
Catholic bishops in Nigeria are calling for changes to an economic cooperation agreement between the EU and Africa, claiming it would force African nations to adopt policies on sexuality, abortion and gender contrary to their social, cultural and religious values. “The agreement looks innocuous and attractive on the surface, but underneath it is carefully blended with post-modern secularistic ideologies that significantly undermine the moral, cultural, and religious beliefs of Nigerian citizens,” the country’s bishops said in a July 12 statement.
Pro-life activists react to GOP platform change on abortion at Trump’s direction
(Kate Scanlon. America, The Jesuit Review).
Members of the Republican National Committee have approved changes to their platform on abortion at the direction of former President Donald Trump, the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, over the objections of pro-life activists who previously asked delegates not to remove the platform’s previous call for federal abortion restrictions. The RNC was widely expected to modify the Republican Party’s stance on abortion after Trump in April announced his position that abortion should be left to the states to legislate after the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned prior precedent declaring abortion as a constitutional right.
(Hispanidad).
Y también en este país, las marchas del Orgullo Gay vandalizan un templo católico: “muerte al cura violeta”, “marika subversiva” y “sin Dios ni amo”.
Empezamos nuestra crónica semanal en Chile, donde se nota el mando en plaza del progresista Gabriel Boric. La Conferencia Episcopal del país denunció una serie de disposiciones “inconstitucionales e ilegales” en el Reglamento N°22 del Ministerio de Salud, publicado en mayo de 2024, que modifica el Decreto Supremo N° 67 de 2018 que aprobaba el ejercicio de la objeción de conciencia de los profesionales de la salud.
(Julieta Villar. Aciprensa).
La Conferencia Episcopal de Chile denunció una serie de disposiciones “inconstitucionales e ilegales” en el Reglamento N°22 del Ministerio de Salud, publicado en mayo de 2024, que modifica el Decreto Supremo N° 67 de 2018 que aprobaba el ejercicio de la objeción de conciencia de los profesionales de la salud.
(Cris magazine. Mónica Miller).
The above NBC News headline was typical of media reaction to the June 27, 2024, presidential debate between Joe Biden and Republican candidate Donald Trump. Indeed, it was a most humiliating and embarrassing moment for the 81-year-old president, who spoke incoherently and stumbled over his words before an audience of 50 million viewers. Now in a true panic, the Democratic Party is desperately trying to plug up the many holes the Biden debate debacle drilled into its political ship as it sails to a possible wreck come the November election. The debate itself was dominated by false statements from both sides: exaggerations, untrue claims, insults, and accusations—with the two candidates managing to speak the truth occasionally. However, on the issue of legalized abortion, and in particular the Roe v. Wade decision itself, both Biden and Trump got it wrong. Indeed, it is staggering just how wrong a sitting president and a former president were regarding the most important social issue of our time. Biden especially misrepresented what the 1973 Supreme Court decision actually said and what it actually permitted in terms of the legalization of abortion, and Trump seemed not to understand the goals of the pro-life movement.
Abortion:
Euthanasia:
(Crux. Elise Ann Allen).
European bishops this weekend had a meeting with Pope Francis in the wake of the recent EU elections, with the pontiff voicing concern over the weakening of the European Union as well as social issues such as abortion. Speaking to Crux, Father Manuel Barrios Prieto, secretary general of the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), described Saturday’s meeting with the pontiff as “very cordial” and open.
(Monasa Narjara. Aci digital).
“I think it is insanity for anyone to want to punish a woman with a sentence greater than that of the criminal who committed the rape. This is, to say the least, insane,” said President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) at a press conference closing the G7 Summit, on Saturday (15).
Lula was referring to bill 1904/2024, by federal deputy Sóstenes Cavalcante (PL-RJ), which equates abortion of gestation after 22 weeks when there is a possibility of the baby’s life to the crime of simple homicide.
(National Catholic Register. Matthew McDonald).
The limited abortion-pill decision of the U.S. Supreme Court June 13 leaves major questions about the future of the drug unanswered, pro-life advocates contend. The high court unanimously found in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine that the four pro-life organizations and four pro-life doctors who brought a lawsuit challenging loosened federal regulations on abortion pills lacked standing — meaning they aren’t, in the court’s view, affected enough by the federal agency’s decisions to bring the lawsuit. But the court did not rule on the merits of their case. About 63% of all abortions in the United States in 2023 took place through abortion pills, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion and collects information about it. That percentage has been steadily growing in recent years and is expected to keep rising. This means that abortion policy is quickly becoming abortion-pill policy.
Here are four abortion pill issues that are still unresolved:
(Catholic Herald).
A decision by the United States Supreme Court relaxing chemical abortion drug regulations will put the “health of women and girls at risk,” according to the U.S. bishops. The 9-0 decision was made in the FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine case, which had aimed to roll back access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortions. In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new drug application for mifepristone tablets marketed under the brand name Mifeprex for use in performing abortions for up to seven weeks. To help ensure that Mifeprex would be used safely and effectively, FDA placed additional restrictions on the drug’s use and distribution, for example requiring doctors to prescribe or to supervise prescription of Mifeprex, and requiring patients to have three in-person visits with the doctor to receive the drug. In 2021, FDA announced that it would no longer enforce the initial in-person visit requirement.