6+ hour, 48+ min ago  (990+ words) Two weeks after calling on the University of Notre Dame to withdraw its appointment of pro-abortion professor Susan Ostermann as head of one of the school's research centers, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend joined students to pray for…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (762+ words) Leaders of several pro-life organizations who spoke with OSV News at the 53rd annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 23 said the Trump administration still has work to do when it comes to their cause. In his speech to the March…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (430+ words) The Trump administration Jan. 22 announced a policy ending the use of fetal tissue from elective abortions in federally funded research. The National Institutes of Health announced that "funds will no longer be used to support research involving human fetal tissue…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (578+ words) In a press call just before the 53rd annual March for Life, a key national pro-life organization pushed the Trump administration to safeguard the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding for abortion, and to reinstate stronger restrictions on mifepristone, a pill…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (416+ words) Although most Americans describe themselves as pro-choice, a majority also would support some legal limits on abortion, despite keeping the procedure largely available, according to a new Marist Poll sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. Among Americans, 62 percent identified as…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (872+ words) While continuing to work to change laws to protect the unborn and support pregnant women in need, "we need to redouble our efforts to continue building, in the words of St. John Paul II, "a culture of life and a…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (371+ words) Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, and Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., the archbishop of Newark, issued a strongly worded statement on Jan. 19 measuring U.S. foreign policy against the principles set forth by Pope…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (496+ words) Pope Leo XIV strongly defended the family, marriage and unborn life during his first-ever New Year's address to the diplomatic corps Jan. 9, telling the diplomats accredited to the Holy See that abortion "cuts short a growing life and refuses to…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (562+ 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…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago  (785+ words) Trump previously campaigned on requiring the government or insurance companies to pay for IVF, which is a form of fertility treatment opposed by the Catholic Church on the grounds that it often involves the destruction of human embryos, among other…...