Catholic Cardinal Raymond Burke recently made the case for pro-abortion politicians like President Joe Biden to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church because of their “open and aggressive” apostasy.

Biden’s radical pro-abortion agenda coupled with his insistence that he is a devout Catholic have caused massive controversy in the Catholic Church. Some bishops, including Burke, have said the president should not receive communion unless he repents, but others disagree.

Burke, a leading expert in Canon Law and former head of the Vatican’s highest court, discussed the controversy in a March interview with Thomas McKenna of Catholic Action for Faith and Family.

We now know of 353 babies spared from abortion since February 17–with more reports coming in every day!

Abortion supporters argue that abortion is healthcare…but one step inside an abortion facility is enough to convince many women there’s something deeply disturbing about the practice.

“The people at the abortion clinic freaked me out,” a 17-week-pregnant mother told vigil participants in Sacramento, California.

The expectant mother had already seen an ultrasound and knew her child is a boy, but relationship problems with the child’s father led her to make an abortion appointment.

Vigil participants prayed with the woman, exchanged phone numbers, and offered support, but she went home noncommittal about continuing her pregnancy.

Pope Francis celebrated World Down Syndrome Day on Sunday by recognizing that every child, born and unborn, is a gift to the world.

“Every child who a woman expects in her womb is a gift that changes a family’s history: the life of fathers and mothers, grandparents and of brothers and sisters,” the pope wrote on Twitter.

More than ever before, people with Down syndrome are thriving and reaching new achievements. Some even attend college, own businesses and get married. And while society has become more accepting and supportive of people with disabilities outside the womb, the same cannot be said of those diagnosed with disabilities before birth.

For more than six months, the U.S. Supreme Court has been delaying a decision about a Mississippi pro-life law that bans abortions after 15 weeks.

And on Monday, it did so again.

Last summer, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, the first female to hold the position, asked the Supreme Court to hear the case and allow the state to protect unborn babies from abortions.

But the justices have not issued a decision about whether they even want to hear the case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Initially, National Review writer Ed Whelan expressed optimism about the case, arguing that it could be “the best opportunity the Supreme Court will ever have to overturn Roe v.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a pro-life law last week to provide resources and encouragement to families of children with Down syndrome.

The Down Syndrome Information Act aims to combat the high abortion rate for unborn babies diagnosed with the genetic disorder by requiring medical facilities to provide information and support to parents facing the diagnosis, according to the Christian Post.

Among other things, it requires medical professionals to explain details about their child’s development, medical needs and treatment options, as well as support programs and other resources to help individuals and families with Down syndrome.

The pro-life bill passed with bipartisan support, including unanimous support in the Mississippi Senate.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has announced that she will sign a bill this week that will ban abortions on babies just because they have Down syndrome.

Earlier this month, the South Dakota legislature unanimously passed a pro-life bill to ban discriminatory abortions on unborn babies with Down syndrome. The unanimous 35-0 vote in the state Senate took place less than two weeks after the state House also unanimously passed the pro-life bill. The House vote was 68-0.

Introduced by Gov. Kristi Noem, state House Bill 1110 would prohibit abortionists from knowingly aborting an unborn baby because the baby has or may have Down syndrome.

Heidi Crowter knows her life is valuable.

But she does not understand why so many other people in the world don’t.

The 25-year-old British woman is a disability rights advocate who is working to stop discrimination against people who, like her, have Down syndrome.

News Letter reports she recently spoke out against the British government’s push to force Northern Ireland to expand abortions, including on unborn babies with Down syndrome.

The law being imposed on Northern Ireland by England allows unborn babies with “severe fetal impairments,” such as Down syndrome, to be aborted up to birth.

“The reason I feel so strongly about abortion is because I am someone who has Down’s syndrome,” Crowter said.

The number of abortions in Louisiana dropped 9% from 2019 to 2020, according to preliminary figures provided to Louisiana Right to Life recently by the Louisiana Department of Health. This puts the abortion rate in Louisiana at a 12-year low.

There were 7,448 abortions performed in Louisiana in 2020. In 2019, 8,144 unborn babies were killed by abortion.

Abortion numbers are 27 percent lower than they were in 2014, when 10,211 abortions were done in Louisiana. The number of abortions performed in the state had increased steadily from 2008-2014 before the decline began.

Benjamin Clapper, Executive Director of Louisiana Right to Life, said the following on the publishing of the statistics: “Today we celebrate that in fewer babies were lost from abortion in 2020 than were lost in 2019. 

Parents of a premature baby have praised a new app that has allowed them to stay connected to their newborn daughter, Barbara, despite the lockdown.

Barbara was born at 27 weeks’ gestation – just three weeks after the abortion limit – in Kent in September last year and was transferred twice to Evelina London Children’s Hospital for her care.

Due to the COVID lockdowns, parents Jenny Clarke and John Britton have had to make use of a video messaging app called vCreate in order to receive updates on their daughter’s progress.

“As we don’t live close to the hospital, we rely on public transport to visit Barbara, which has been especially difficult over the past few months”, Jenny said.

Last week, the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute released long-term data on rates of pregnancies, births, and abortions in the U.S. The national data range from 1973 to 2017 and include breakdowns by age demographics, and the state-level data range from 1988 to 2017.

These statistics are especially helpful because, while the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) provide some information about the age demographics of women obtaining abortions, their data are incomplete. For instance, the CDC’s 2018 Abortion Surveillance Report did not include data from California, Maryland, New Hampshire, and Wyoming.

As a result, this new Guttmacher report provides interesting information for understanding U.S.

The Iowa Supreme Court considered arguments Tuesday about a state law that defunds Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups of sex education grants.

In 2019, Iowa lawmakers voted to disqualify abortion providers from its sex education program in response to a strong outcry from state residents. But Planned Parenthood of the Heartland sued, claiming the state unfairly singled it out, and a state judge blocked the law.

This week, the state appealed that ruling in front of the Iowa Supreme Court, telling the justices that Iowans do not want their tax dollars to subsidize abortions, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reports.

For six years, the undercover journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood’s aborted baby body parts trade have been battling a judge’s order blocking them from releasing more videos.

Back in 2015, federal Judge William Orrick, who has ties to Planned Parenthood, blocked David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress from releasing an additional 200 hours of video footage, The Federalist reports.

The videos were taken at a National Abortion Federation (NAF) convention. NAF is suing Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress for breach of contract. It also wants a permanent ban on the release of the videos.

In February, Daleiden and his lawyers returned to court to argue that they should be allowed to release the videos to the public, according to the report.

A woman who died after leaving the West Alabama Women’s Center (WAWC) abortion facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on May 7, 2020, has been identified through her autopsy report as 29-year-old April Lowery.

The report was obtained by the CEC for Life on behalf of a coalition of national and local pro-life groups that also includes Operation Rescue, Life Legal Defense Foundation, and Pro-Life Tuscaloosa.

Lowery was seen on May 7, 2020, leaving the WAWC by pro-life activists, who described her as “sick and pale.”  She had to be physically supported as she struggled to walk from the clinic to an awaiting private vehicle, which then reportedly transported her to what is believed to have been UAB Hospital in Birmingham, where she was later pronounced dead.