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Scroll to view all articles Florida May Be Paving the Way for Eliminating Minor Abortions without Parental Consent By John M. Grondelski Doe v. Uthmeier is likely headed for Florida’s Supreme Court. If that court accepts the attorney general’s argument, there’ll be a valuable precedent to strike down these constructs that have been in place interfering with parental rights for 49 years. CLICK TO READ Pro-Life Advocates Celebrate Major Victory with EMTALA Guidance By Jacqueline O'Hara The Trump administration recently rescinded the Biden administration’s misguided interpretation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, EMTALA. Pro-abortion advocates framed this move as an assault on women’s health and safety, while pro-life advocates heralded it as a major victory for the conscience rights of medical professionals and proper medical standards. CLICK TO READ Playing Politics with the Abortion Pill: A Quarter Century of Abuse of Power at the FDA From the new Spring 2025 issue of the Human Life Review By J. Marc Wheat and Timothy Harper For some 2,000 years, the problem of “who guards the guardians” has challenged good governance. The fundamental rights of every person, including the right to life, depend on a government properly constrained. The history of the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone is a cautionary tale of what happens without such constraints. CLICK TO READ Teach Truthfully and Minister Mercifully  By Rev. Paul T. Stallsworth  Let’s be honest. Congregations, as well as their pastors and priests, are hesitant, even unwilling, to address abortion either publicly or from the pulpit. ... The following document was written, edited, adopted, and released by the National Pro-Life Religious Council (NPRC) in 2010. It has been lightly edited to update its claims. CLICK TO READ Republican Congresswoman Struggles to Get Her Ectopic Pregnancy Treated, Blames Pro-Abortion "Fearmongering"  By Madeline Fry Schultz  Representative Kat Cammack, a Florida Republican, waited for hours to receive treatment for a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy last year. Medical professionals claimed they were afraid of running afoul of Florida’s six-week abortion ban. CLICK TO READ Failures Real and Imagined By Fr. David Poecking  I call the reader’s attention to the New Testament saints Peter and Paul ... For centuries Christians have drawn inspiration from their heroism in the early days of the Church, but in this time of uncertainty for the pro-life movement, we can draw inspiration also from these saints’ willingness to learn from their failures.  CLICK TO READ Chicago Teachers Union Leader Praises Abortion Access By Matt Lamb  A ProPublica piece details how population decline in Chicago has left dozens of public schools way under capacity, threatening their existence. But the vice president of the [Chicago Teachers Union] has an odd suggestion: Enrollment will increase as people come to Chicago for abortions. CLICK TO READ Priorities By Dr. Donald DeMarco  Morality is “traditional” only from the standpoint of the present. In terms of what it is, it is perennial. ... Humanity has not changed, though lifestyles have. To place the ephemeral above the long-lasting is to invert the order of culture and invite catastrophe. CLICK TO READ NPR Glamorizes Self-Managed Abortions By Jacqueline O'Hara  NPR, the media network that once played a recording of an abortion live on air, recently published a piece on the post-Dobbs landscape that seemingly glamorized the rise of women who are “managing their abortions without doctors.” CLICK TO READ A Sign(ature) of Our Times By Brian Caulfield  The generational ritual of styling a signature has been swept away in our digital world. I tried to teach my two sons the practice, showing them how I signed my name and urging them to write their own with precision and pride. But even as middle-schoolers, they sensed, in a way I did not, that this was a dying art. ... For me, it has been an uphill climb against the cultural and business practices of our day. CLICK TO READ Sign up to receive the newsletter Spring 2025 Issue Online!

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