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The Biden campaign is planning an aggressive effort to highlight the stakes of the 2024 election for abortion access around what would have been the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. President Biden and Vice President Harris will headline a rally in Virginia on Wednesday to discuss the threat Republicans would pose to abortion rights if they win back the White House. The rally comes after Virginia Democrats secured majorities in the state Legislature largely because of the issue of abortion. They team also plans to launch a new paid media campaign aimed at women and swing voters in battleground...

The Pontifical John Paul II Institute Triggers Controversy The John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences generated a flurry of controversy in the Italian Catholic blogosphere last week after a strange message posted on its Facebook page defended Joe Biden’s support of legal abortion.The Institute was the scene of strong unrest following the publication of its new statutes in July 2019. Let us briefly recall this episode. Among the main points which had provoked outrage was the suppression of the teaching of basic moral theology. Cardinal Angelo Scola, Archbishop Emeritus of Milan and former Rector...

What a truly wonderful time it is to be alive. Not only can you get abortion medication in the mail while remaining safe and comfortable in quarantine, you also get your favorite Hollywood stars, like Jamie Lee Curtis, to give you friendly and smiling advice on setting up a “virtual meeting” with abortion doctors, so that you’ll never be confused on how to get rid of your unborn child, no matter where you are. The Knives Out and Halloween actress announced via Twitter that she had been named the “proud” “spokesperson” for the baby-killing organization’s “Telehealth” program (‘Knives Out for...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer banned a lot of things in an effort to save lives during the coronavirus crisis, but life-destroying abortions were not among them. On Wednesday, leaders of a Detroit suburb urged the pro-abortion Democrat governor to protect unborn babies, too. WDIV News 4 reports the Shelby Township Board of Trustees unanimously approved the message urging Whitmer to amend her stay-at-home order to include elective abortions. The governor’s order prohibits elective and non-essential medical procedures, among other things, during the coronavirus crisis. The purpose is to preserve medical supplies for those who need them most and prevent further...

Because our readers have been SO great lately, keeping up with us and showering us with love and lots of comments, I’m thinking we need to show our appreciation. Without you we couldn’t maintain this blog (well, we probably still would, but it would be much less fun and dynamic), and we’re so grateful for your continued support. Hell, we even get our ideas from you! So, the reader who submits the best abortion haiku will have it featured here as an Abortioneers post! ~ Anti-Anti inviting readers to submit abortion haikus for posting, Abortioneers, December 14

Washington, DC -- Ted Kennedy, the iconic Massachusetts senator, died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port after a long battle with cancer. Elected first in 1962, the 77-year-old liberal lion reminds many political observers of the changes on abortion among many members of the Democratic Party.

The case for Barack Obama made by his Catholic supporters usually begins with the attempt to dispute Sen. McCain's Pro-Life credentials. Next, they hunt for an "intrinsic evil" supported by McCain that could count as "proportionate" to Obama's strong support for abortion rights, thus at least balancing the moral scales between the two, and making a vote for Obama morally permissible.Let's walk through these arguments one at a time, and see if they stand up to close scrutiny....

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Since the crushing defeat of the Democrats in the last election, the party’s spin doctors have been crafting a new approach to abortion without making any moves to abandon their basic premise that babies can be killed at will. Democratic think tank, the Third Way, billing itself as a “strategy center for progressives” attempting to reverse the social tide in the US towards traditional values, says that the Democrat party and abortion groups need to change their rhetoric. After its success in moving the Democrats to the centre on gun control, the think tank...

On June 3, I asked Maryland's Gov. Robert Ehrlich about California's federal Judge Phyllis Hamilton's ruling that Congress' overwhelmingly passed law against partial-birth abortion is unconstitutional. And I also asked about what I thought was the ACLU – but later realized it was Americans United for Separation of Church and State (the Rev. Barry Lynn) who wrote the IRS to complain about alleged "electioneering" by the Colorado Springs Catholic Bishop Michael Sheridan's pastoral letter about Catholic politicians receiving Communion. QUESTION: Since there was no such objection to New Orleans Catholic Archbishop Joseph Rummel's excommunication of arch-segregationist Leander Perez in 1962,...

Newark Archbishop John Myers ruffled feathers recently when he said Catholic politicians who support abortion should not take Communion, a move that was seen as an attack on (New Jersey) Gov. James E. McGreevey . Democrats saw a partisan edge, given that the same weight was not placed on capital punishment, the Iraq war or other church positions that might work against Republicans. So there has been much buzz lately at word that Myers attended a St. Patrick's Day lunch in Washington as the guest of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, with President George W. Bush in attendance. "He can have...