An upscale resale shop in Pittsburgh offers free maternity wear, baby clothes and referrals to other resources for women facing crisis pregnancies. Owner Jeannie French says the project combines her love of thrifting and pro-life advocacy.
While Pope Francis has clearly condemned abortion, the Vatican has repeatedly pushed for a pro-life message that extends to life-related issues beyond ending abortion, which has been a focus for the American church.
Catholics responded with joy, anger and trepidation to the U.S. Supreme Court's June 24 decision that overturned its earlier 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade that had guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion.
As we at NCR have long argued, making abortion illegal is not the only — or even necessarily the most effective — way to bring about a reduction in the number of abortions in this country.
A new poll found 63% of U.S. Catholic adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 68% say Roe should be left as is. Those views were in line with the overall American public on the issues.
NCR Connections: It's embarrassing that an institution so supposedly committed to supporting families and proclaiming its "pro-life" stance isn't a leader in offering guaranteed paid parental leave for its laborers.
Commentary: A possible post-Roe society asks pro-life Catholics that we reconsider how to engage perspectives that we have often avoided and attacked as contrary to Catholic teaching or scandalous to the faithful.
"I know that the rest of the world, when they hope for one person to solve this problem, they look at the pope," Joseph Donnelly told NCR May 16, in his first interview with a U.S. news agency since his arrival in Rome.
Ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling expected to overturn Roe v. Wade, experts warn that faith-fueled right-wing extremist groups may be planning to appear at other events to challenge supporters of abortion rights.
