Michael Sean Winters: The leak of an opinion overturning Roe v. Wade set off culture war extremism. Both sides are driven by special interest groups to adopt all-or-nothing solutions, but most Americans want compromise.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: A Little Rock Nine remembrance of MLK; videos illustrate precarious labor conditions; Knights in the political spotlight
NCR Today: Choose life, says God. That's the invitation to us all, especially with regard to banning weapons directed by artificial intelligence, as well as advocating pro-life public policies.
Distinctly Catholic: With the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, the nation is about to be consumed, again, by a debate about abortion.
Pope Francis denounced using prenatal tests to determine birth defects that often lead to abortions, comparing it to the Nazi-era eugenics program that determined what lives were worth keeping.
The U.S. bishops' pro-life chairman praised the Trump administration's move to ban clinics that receive Title X federal funds from making abortion referrals or sharing space with abortion providers.
In oral arguments before the Supreme Court March 20, justices seemed skeptical about a California law that requires pro-life pregnancy centers in the state to visibly display information about abortions to their clients that the centers say violates their right to free speech.
Distinctly Catholic: Three recent developments suggest there is more fluidity in the political debate surrounding abortion than I had anticipated, and one sign of how intractable that debate remains.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced that its Office of Civil Rights now has a division whose job is to protect the conscience rights of healthcare workers and hospitals.
