2+ hour, 35+ min ago   (614+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) " As the pro-life movement prepares for the 53rd annual March for Life, their cause faces a number of key issues such as preserving the Hyde Amendment, the recent approval of a new generic abortion drug and a rising…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (279+ words) The Hyde Amendment, a budget'policy, has been in place since 1976." "Authentic health care upholds the dignity of all human life, and health care policy must not violate this dignity," Bishop Daniel Thomas, chair of the United States Conference of Catholic…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (589+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) " After President Donald Trump told House Republicans to be "flexible" on the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits public funding of elective abortions, in negotiations on health care subsidies, a key national pro-life group argued the policy should be…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (463+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) " President Donald Trump announced Oct. 16 a policy proposal to increase access to in vitro fertilization, including issuing guidance urging employers to offer fertility benefits directly to their employees. Trump previously campaigned on requiring the government or insurance…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (485+ words) In the top letter of a recent bundle presented to Pope Leo XIV, a young immigrant from the United States writes of the fear they have for their parents, and their aunts and uncles who are undocumented amid a nationwide…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (696+ words) BROOKLYN HEIGHTS " Clutching her rosary beads, Rosa Cerrato spent the morning of Sept. 13 standing on a sidewalk with her head bowed in prayer." Cerrato, a volunteer at the Life Center of New York in Bay Ridge, a pro-life facility, stood…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (255+ words) WASHINGTON " The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has thanked the Trump administration for its recent decision to revoke a Biden-era rule that qualified veterans to receive abortions under their medical package. "The women and men who served our country, to defend…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (444+ words) ALBANY " Calling it a "money grab," the New York State Catholic Conference is responding to reports that Planned Parenthood is requesting $35 million in funding from New York State to help offset Medicaid funding cuts by the federal government." "New York…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (468+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) " The Trump administration said Aug. 1 it would revoke its predecessor's policy rule that included abortion as a covered health benefit for veterans and their dependents, and return to a policy of fully excluding abortion and abortion-counseling. The…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (251+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) " The House'Judiciary'Committee'voted June 10 to repeal a federal law crafted to protect access to reproductive health facilities by prohibiting actions such as obstructing the entrance to an abortion clinic. Congress and then-President Bill Clinton enacted the Freedom of…...