Category: Sanctity of Life

Senator Josh Hawley introduces bill to reinstate abortion pill safeguards and allow women to sue

Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has introduced the Restoring Safeguards for Dangerous Abortion Drugs Act to “reinstate safety regulations on the chemical abortion drug mifepristone,” according to the Senator’s press release. The legislation would also prohibit importation of abortion drugs and enable women harmed by the abortion pill to sue for both physical and emotional distress.

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Death-themed UK ‘festival’ seeks to normalize assisted suicide

The Sheffield Life, Loss, and Death Festival summarized its goal as “reducing the stigma” surrounding death and various forms of dying. The festival is being hosted by Compassionate Sheffield – a nonprofit organization funded by the National Health Service (NHS), which characterizes assisted suicide as a viable option for end-of-life care and calls the topic “complex and shrouded in misinformation.”

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Pro-Life Republican Senators Introduce Bill to Help Pregnant Moms

The MOMS Act includes Cramer’s Unborn Child Support Act, which gives pregnant mothers the option to request child support from the father before the child is born, and the establishment of a federal website with resources for pregnant women. As CatholicVote previously reported, the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) recently called for such a measure.

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New York Deserves Better than State-Sanctioned Suicide

In the New York legislation sponsored by Assemblywoman Amy Paulin and state senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, doctors would be forced to lie on death certificates by claiming the cause of death was the person’s underlying illness and not what actually killed him or her—the lethal combination of drugs. Any legislation that requires doctors to lie for the record cannot be good for the public.

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The abortion pill left women with the ‘worst cramps… magnified by a million’

The actual number of abortion pill complications and the deaths preborn children from the abortion pill may never be fully known, due to underreporting. But some women have told their stories about their horrific and heartbreaking experiences. In addition, women have spoken out as part of the Silent No More Awareness campaign, suggesting a reality far removed from popular narratives of the abortion pill.

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Researchers Say Human Population at Critically Low Levels, Need More Babies to Survive

A new study has found that human populations may need a fertility rate of at least 2.7 children per woman — far higher than the long-accepted 2.1 — to reliably avoid long-term extinction.
The research, published April 30 in PLOS One and led by Takuya Okabe of Shizuoka University in Japan, challenges decades of demographic assumptions, Phys.org reported. Using mathematical models, the team examined how variations in fertility, mortality, and the likelihood that some adults never reproduce can significantly increase the risk of population decline — even when a society meets the traditional “replacement level” birth rate.

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