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Abortion-advocacy groups in Michigan have launched a ballot initiative to override a state abortion ban — which is currently unenforced — by way of a constitutional amendment.
The Texas Catholic Conference, the public policy voice of Texas’ 16 Catholic dioceses and 20 bishops, issued a Sept. 3 statement. Its sentiments were echoed by other U.S. bishops.
Analysts say it will be difficult, but must be tried. Catholic engagement will be key.
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A strong pro-life grassroots movement has coalesced nationally to combat a push for legal abortion that is being driven by foreign pro-abortion groups.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says signing a pro-life measure is ‘what my Catholic Christian faith requires,’ but Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker counters that his own state is ‘making history’ with its pro-abortion legislation.
Some Republican lawmakers say the bill goes ‘too far,’ but women who chose to have a child after becoming pregnant from rape and others who were conceived in rape applaud the new state law.
U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who has a son with Down syndrome, told the Register that John Rogers’ ‘frightening’ remarks reveal a significant truth about what abortion does to society.
Two legislature-passed pro-life bills are expected to be signed by the governor.
The life-affirming bills are being considered in Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Minnesota, Ohio and Texas.
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