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Catholics remain the largest Christian denomination represented, with 150 members. In total, Christians account for about 85% of the 119th Congress, according to a report from the Pew Research Center.
Recent pro-life news including a bill in Texas that would reclassify abortion pills as controlled substances.
Catholic Rep. Pat Fallon was one of the members of the House Oversight Committee who called on Kimberly Cheatle to resign, because of the Secret Service failures that nearly resulted in Donald Trump’s assassination.
The USCCB estimates more than 300 attacks on Catholic churches in the U.S. since May 2020.
The bishops’ letter alluded to Catholic failures to protect children from sexual abuse by clergy in the U.S., failures that have only been brought to light in the last two decades.
The bishops said it is ‘inhumane’ to provide taxpayer-funded abortion as ‘a so-called solution to pregnancy’ and not ‘resources needed to welcome a child and flourish as a family.’ Previously, the VA banned abortion and abortion counseling in its programs.
COMMENTARY: Legislators, you are the first Congress to govern an America that is out from under the thumb of Roe. Will you act like it?
The senators accused the rule of being an attempt to “increase taxpayer funding for abortion on demand, to the financial benefit of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry.”
‘I believe unborn children need the president of the United States and members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to be their friends and advocates,’ said Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., on Tuesday, before the House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected an opportunity to vote on a prohibition of taxpayer-funded abortion.
Rep. Chris Smith spoke at a Tuesday hearing of the commission on “China, Genocide, and the Olympics.”
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