At March for Life, a jubilant crowd prepares for state-level fights
Washngton DC, US RNS Thousands assembled on Friday to participate in this year’s edition of the anti-abortion March for Life on the National Mall in Washington, DC, where throngs celebrated the fall of Roe v Wade while expressing trepidation as the abortion debate moves to the states. Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life, opened […]
US divided over Roe’s repeal as abortion foes gird for march
United StatesAP Anti-abortion activists will have multiple reasons to celebrate – and some reasons for unease – when they gather Friday in Washington for the annual March for Life. The march, which includes a rally drawing abortion opponents from across the nation, has been held annually since January, 1974 – a year after the US […]
Protests in Malta as parliament debates abortion amendment
Valletta, MaltaReuters A large picture of an unborn baby was placed outside the office of Malta’s Prime Minister on Sunday as demonstrators called on the government to halt plans to amend the country’s strict anti-abortion laws. The protest, the biggest in years, attracted several thousand people including Malta’s top Catholic bishop and the leader of […]
Abortion in the US: In Kansas vote, a blow to Catholic bishops’ political strategy
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports on suggestions that this week’s rejection of moves against abortion in Kansas was also a rejection of the Catholic Church hierarchy and may hint hint at a mounting backlash against the church’s involvement in the abortion debate…
At US March for Life, a mix of triumph and apprehension
Washington DC, USRNS Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall on Friday for the March for Life, an annual anti-abortion rally that took on a triumphant tone as attendees looked forward to a pending Supreme Court ruling with the potential to strike down Roe v Wade and return control over abortion legislation to the […]
In the US, annual March for Life goes virtual amid COVID-19, unrest at US Capitol
RNS The March for Life is going virtual this year. The move online comes as the COVID-19 pandemic “may be peaking” and amid the “heightened pressures that law enforcement officers and others are currently facing in and around the Capitol,” according to a statement posted Friday on the March for Life website – two weeks before the […]
ESSAY: WILL THE REAL PRO-LIFE POLITICAL PARTY PLEASE STAND UP?
Christian activist and author SHANE CLAIBORNE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reflects on pro-life issues in the context of the upcoming US presidential election…
ESSAY: TRUMP WOOS CATHOLICS ON ABORTION BUT MAY LOSE THEM ON LIFE
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JOHN GEHRING, Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life Action, looks at the broader relationship between Catholics and pro-life issues against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump’s historic appearance at last Friday’s March for Life…
US President Donald Trump addresses March for Life, where religion and politics mix
Washington, DCRNS US President Trump delivered a speech before a sprawling crowd gathered on the National Mall for this year’s anti-abortion March for Life demonstration, making him the first president ever to offer an in-person address to the conservative-leaning gathering where religion and politics are known to mix. “All of us here understand an eternal […]
ESSAY: AS FOSTERING REACHES CRISIS POINT, ACTIVISTS MAKE IT A PRO-LIFE ISSUE
Writing in the US context, CHARLES C CAMOSY, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at how approaches to foster care are changing…