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Baby Jamie’s little heart stopped beating the day he was born. His brief life left a profound impact on those around him — a powerful testimony on this International Day of the Unborn Child.
The lawsuit argues that the federal government acted unlawfully when in July 2022 it directed that hospitals and emergency rooms would be required to perform abortions under the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, as various court rulings leave status of federal law uncertain.
Illinois Right to Life states that ‘in vitro fertilization is detrimental to the inherent value of life.’ The Catholic Church teaches that the use of IVF is ‘morally unacceptable.’
EDITORIAL: The continuing scandal of a sitting Catholic president who has continually claimed to be devoutly committed to his faith, yet who has ceaselessly promoted abortion throughout his presidency as his highest political priority, will soon come to an end.
COMMENTARY: We are not infinite as God is infinite, of course, but our dignity is not quantifiable and is indeed radically open-ended, as we are raised by way of participation into God’s inner life.
COMMENTARY: A robust teaching on the family provides the necessary tools for understanding why abortion is wrong and why it tears apart the social order.
EDITORIAL: While the Vatican’s document ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is morally coherent, the Republican presidential candidate’s abortion-related announcement, issued the same day, was anything but.
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The reality that human life begins at conception isn’t religious doctrine, it’s basic biology.
COMMENTARY: ‘Man alone is called to share, by knowledge and love, in God’s own life ... This is the fundamental reason for his dignity. Being in the image of God, the human individual possesses the dignity of a person, who is not just something, but someone.” (CCC 356)
Offering a blueprint for the pro-life movement, prominent Catholics sign on to a letter that fleshes out the inherent dignity of human life.
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