Posts Tagged ‘Abortion’

What does respect life really mean?

Thursday, August 24th, 2023
respect life

Before backing a law banning abortion in Texas altogether, Gov. Greg Abbott propelled a 2021 measure banning abortion after a heartbeat has been detected, saying he “would protect the life of every child with a heartbeat.” He happens to be Catholic. So why did Abbott put razor wire and a floating barrier in the Rio Read more

Study: Most women don’t want abortion

Thursday, July 13th, 2023

Pro-abortion advocates like to frame their position as “pro-choice,” as if women can easily decide whether or not they want to have an abortion. But for many women who go through with abortion, the decision wasn’t really their choice at all, according to a new study. A peer-reviewed study by the anti-abortion Charlotte Lozier Institute Read more

Taxpayers should be free to choose to pay for abortions

Monday, May 29th, 2023
taxpayers

If women are free to choose whether to have an abortion, taxpayers should be free to choose if they contribute taxes to fund their choice. In a recent statement, the pro-life advocacy group Right to Life argues that while taxpayers have a moral obligation to contribute their taxes, they should not be obligated to fund Read more

Woman with Down syndrome challenges abortion law at EU Human Rights Court

Monday, May 22nd, 2023
Down syndrome

A woman with Down syndrome is fighting the UK abortion law at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Heidi Crowter says the current legislation discriminates against people with disabilities. It allows abortion up to birth if the foetus has a condition such as Down syndrome. “I am taking this case to Strasbourg because it Read more

Teen pregnancies halved, abortion numbers down

Monday, February 27th, 2023
Teen pregnancies

Teen pregnancies in New Zealand are on the decline at present. Numbers giving birth have more than halved in the past decade. The past ten years has also seen a downward trend in abortions, according to the latest Abortion Services Aotearoa New Zealand annual report . The stats Newly released figures from Stats NZ on Read more

The clamour and the silence

Thursday, September 1st, 2022

We can truly feel for women who find themselves in a terrible predicament for which abortion can seem to be the only way out.  That situation is not what I am addressing in this short article. We can also sympathise with good and decent people who have become victims of a culture that is not Read more

Chris Finlayson, former Cabinet Minister, has words for Church

Monday, August 22nd, 2022

Former Cabinet minister Chris Finlayson, a practicing Catholic, is also unsparing in his critiques of the Catholic Church. Finlayson says he has vigorously chided church leaders who try to intervene in politics. On one occasion the Archbishop of Wellington, Cardinal John Dew, invited him to a picnic on Parliament’s lawn. Finlayson says Dew wanted to Read more

Pro-life panelists see unintended consequences from Dobbs decision

Monday, July 18th, 2022

Pro-life Catholics are concerned about unintended consequences from the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs v Jackson decision that overturned the 49-year old Roe v Wade ruling. Panel members who spoke at a July 14 Georgetown University forum are among them. “The Dobbs decision did not feel like any kind of victory, because I find myself concerned Read more

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh mocked at dinner

Monday, July 11th, 2022

Following reports that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh left Morton’s DC steakhouse early on Wednesday night amid protests outside, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York took issue with media coverage of the incident. “Poor guy. He left before his soufflé because he decided half the country should risk death if they have an ectopic Read more

Life begins at conception

Monday, July 4th, 2022
Life begins at conception

It’s universally accepted that life begins at conception. To quote the American College of Pediatricians: “At fertilisation, the human being emerges as a whole, genetically distinct, individuated zygotic living human organism, a member of the species Homo sapiens, needing only the proper environment in order to grow and develop. The difference between the individual in Read more