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A doctor gives a patient medication to start a medical abortion at Planned Parenthood in Birmingham, Ala., March 14, 2022. An Alabama attorney general is the latest political leader to suggest prosecution for women having abortions. (OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters)

Catholics oppose Alabama A.G. suggestion of prosecuting women over abortion pills

January 17, 2023

Days after the federal government signaled it would allow abortion pills to be distributed through the postal service even in states that have banned or restricted the procedure, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall indicated that women who undergo medication abortions in the state could still be subject to prosecution.

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I’d Like to Say: Stop Weaponizing the Eucharist

April 25, 2022
We may find common ground on pro-life issues when we expand our view to include other pressing social problems.
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Handling Post-Abortion Guilt

August 24, 2017
I have had two abortions. My friend at work told me that the Catholic faith can help me with the massive guilt that I feel. Please tell me how. Thanks for writing. You are not alone in realizing that an ...
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Catholic pro-life activists pray Feb. 11, 2023, outside of Bread and Roses Woman's Health Center, a Clearwater, Fla., clinic that provides abortions. A new annual report by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued Jan. 16, 2025, identified what it called five areas of critical concern, defined as both threats and opportunities, for religious liberty. (OSV News photo/Octavio Jones, Reuters)

Murder Is Not Pro-Life

September 24, 2009
George Tiller, a medical doctor and one of only a handful of physicians in the country who performed late-term abortions, was one of the most reviled figures by anti-abortion activists.
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