Delegates at the Republican National Convention approved a new party platform July 15 that largely reflects their nominee Donald Trump's political positions, many in his own words.
Members of the Republican National Committee have approved changes to platform on abortion at the direction of former President Donald Trump, the party's presumptive presidential nominee, over the objections of pro-life activists who previously asked delegates not to remove the platform's previous call for federal abortion restrictions.
The Senate June 4 held a hearing on the impact of post-Dobbs abortion restrictions, with lawmakers alternately criticizing or defending them with respect to women's health care concerns.
Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, issued a video statement April 8 arguing abortion should be left to individual states to legislate and declining to back federal restrictions sought by pro-life activists.
Many of the pro-life supporters who attended the 45th annual Maryland March for Life held recently in Annapolis know they are in for a difficult fight come November.
A recent study from the Guttmacher Institute, an organization that supports abortion access, found that the number of abortions in 2023 has increased to the highest number and rate in the United States in over a decade.
As Vincent Ruiz-Ponce and his wife, Danielle, prepare for the birth of their sixth child this spring, he said they expect the unexpected — family expenses they don’t always see coming.
Even in a politically divided country, the reduction of child poverty in America -- reported by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2022 as 16.3% nationally, or more than 11 million children living in persistent want of adequate food, clothing, shelter and utilities -- can typically be embraced as a bipartisan, pro-family and pro-life goal.
Leaving the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul after the Jan. 22 Prayer Service for Life with her 6-month-old daughter and 2-year-old son in a stroller, Kaleisha Adamson said she attended because she wanted others to realize the blessing and privilege of having children.
Winners of this year’s Champions for Life awards demonstrate the full spectrum of protecting the dignity of the human person, from advocating for children in the womb all the way to those taking their final breaths.
High school senior Noah Schoenfelder started each morning of last year’s trip from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to the National March for Life in Washington, D.C., with an hour of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.
It took place only a couple of days after I was ordained auxiliary bishop of my home archdiocese of St. Louis, back in 2001. De Smet Jesuit High School had invited me to offer the opening Mass of the school year, and I was very much looking forward to it.
