An 83-year-old Canadian woman with cancer, Brigitte Stegemann, was reportedly given medical assistance in dying (MAID) without her final consent while her family was away, leading to an investigation by Belleville Police. The case has drawn national and international attention, highlighting concerns about the safeguards and increasing use of MAID in Canada, where it has become one of the leading causes of death.
Virginia voters will decide on a constitutional amendment affecting Article I, Section 11, which concerns due process protections related to when life begins, with the amendment specifying that these protections apply only after a baby is outside the mother. Polls show support for the amendment, but when voters are informed of its implications, including abortion up to birth and other provisions, support decreases significantly, raising concerns about the ballot language and voter understanding.
Senator Josh Hawley announced the signing of a new Declaration for Life at the Missouri Prayer Breakfast, calling on Congress members to support his legislation to ban the chemical abortion drug mifepristone. The Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act, co-sponsored by several Republican senators, aims to withdraw FDA approval of mifepristone and allow lawsuits against its manufacturers, with the FDA currently reviewing the drug and expected to announce a decision by the end of the year.
The United States hosted the sixth annual Geneva Consensus Declaration on Capitol Hill, with 43 member countries supporting the right to life, family, women's health, and national sovereignty, and President Donald Trump reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to these values in a letter presented by Vince Haley.
Virginia Bishop Michael Burbidge instructed every priest in his diocese to read a letter at Mass urging Catholics to oppose two constitutional amendments on abortion and marriage ahead of the November 3 election. He argued that Ballot Question 1 would expand abortion rights beyond reasonable limits and that Ballot Question 2 would remove the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, enshrining gender ideology in the state constitution.
Pro-abortion agitators disrupted a Catholic Mass at Westminster Cathedral in London by standing between the congregation and the altar with a sign and were escorted out by security before the March for Life event. Jeremiah Igunnubole, legal counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, suggested the protesters may have violated the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 and public order laws, while the March for Life co-director noted the disturbance was ironic given pro-lifers' usual treatment when praying publicly.
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Catholic Church in Illinois is challenging the Democrat-led state’s recently passed assisted suicide law in court. Chicago’s archbishop, Cardinal Blase Cupich, joined two orders of Catholic nuns and an Illinois pharmacist in a lawsuit filed Thursday in an effort to block the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act (EOLOA), the Becket...
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman sued an organization that promotes mail-order abortion-inducing drugs to women in states where it’s restricted. Coleman announced the litigation Thursday against Mayday Health, a New York-based activist organization, stating the organization broke state law by advertising illegal mail-order abortion pills. Last weekend, Mayday Health chartered an airplane that flew over...
Virginia’s most populous Catholic diocese is planning a coordinated effort in churches next month, urging parishioners to reject constitutional amendments on abortion and marriage that will appear on the ballot this fall. Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington hosted a webinar for priests and asked them to read a message at Masses on...
On Aug. 10, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy. Abortion advocates call it “closing the gaps” in “abortion rights protections.” Abortion foes call it “abortion until birth,” making it legal to dismember fully formed babies, limb from limb. The “mainstream” media called it nothing. You couldn’t find...
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., released a new report Wednesday claiming federal regulators and abortion pill manufacturers are putting mothers at risk. The monthslong investigation found that there is a lack of oversight and significant gaps in patient safety protections and calls on the Food and Drug Administration to act. The report, obtained by the Daily...
