Now is the time for prayer and public witness to the Gospel of Life. Recently, there has been a steady erosion of the laws and policies restricting abortion, and abortion related activities. This includes:

• A new push in Congress to force Americans to pay for abortion by rescinding the Hyde Amendment, and other similar laws, that have protected taxpayers from funding elective abortions. In addition, HHS published a proposed rule to reverse “The Protect Life Rule,” a regulation issued by the Trump Administration in 2019 to separate abortion from family planning in the federal Title X family planning program. 
• Health & Human Services (HHS) is reversing its 2019 decision that all research applications that propose using human fetal tissue from elective abortions will be reviewed by an Ethics Advisory Board. Scientists and research institutions will now be able to apply for federal grants without ethics oversight for the use of aborted children. In 2019 the Board rejected 13 of the 14 applications submitted because the proposals did not utilize ethical alternatives available for research.
• The FDA announced that they will no longer be enforcing the “in-person dispensing requirement” for the chemical abortion  pills during the remainder of the COVID-19 public health emergency. This requirement was put in place by public health officials over twenty years ago, under President Bill Clinton, as a necessary precondition to ensure that pregnant women do not have conditions that would make the abortion pills even more unsafe and possibly deadly for the woman.

As Pope St. John Paul II stated in Evangelium Vitae “the value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes”.

For more information, contact Jeff Solinger at jksolinger@aol.com or (614) 506-2382.