Catholic News Agency reports on 2025 federal and state abortion policy shifts following the Trump administration’s partial restoration of pre-Biden policies. Federal changes include reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy, withdrawal of emergency room abortion mandates, and Planned Parenthood defunding – though marred by FDA approval of generic mifepristone. Texas strengthened chemical abortion liability laws while Wyoming’s ultrasound requirement was judicially blocked. North Dakota upheld its near-total abortion ban, while California allocated $140 million to Planned Parenthood and Illinois mandated campus abortion pill distribution. The article frames abortion as a policy debate rather than intrinsic evil.
Naturalism’s Triumph Over Divine Law
The reporting exemplifies regnum hominis (the reign of man) supplanting Regnum Christi (the Kingdom of Christ). By discussing abortion through utilitarian policy metrics rather than moral absolutes, the article tacitly accepts the Enlightenment fallacy that civil law exists independently of eternal law. Pius XI condemned this inversion in Quas Primas: “Nations will not have peace until they recognize the reign of our Savior” (1925). The 51 senators’ mere request to rescind mifepristone approval – rather than demand prosecution of abortionists under existing federal conspiracy laws (18 U.S. Code § 241) – reveals the entire political spectrum’s capitulation to legal positivism.
Theological Bankruptcy of Incrementalism
In Texas, where nearly all abortions are illegal, lawmakers passed a bill that allows families to sue companies that manufacture or distribute chemical abortion pills.
This “pro-life” measure constitutes formal cooperation with evil by recognizing exceptions to abortion bans. The Catechism of the Council of Trent decreed: “He who provides the means to sin becomes guilty of the sin itself” (Part III, Ch 6). Texas’ law implicitly legitimizes chemical abortion providers through regulatory frameworks rather than demanding their imprisonment under homicide statutes. Meanwhile, states boasting “shield laws” openly flout Bonum commune (common good) principles by transforming pharmacies into abortion trafficking hubs – a moral catastrophe Pius IX foresaw when condemning “the absurdity that the State should be separated from the Church” (Syllabus of Errors, 1864, Proposition 55).
Murder Codified as Medicine
The FDA’s generic mifepristone approval demonstrates medicine’s descent into thanatology. While the article notes 70 Planned Parenthood closures, it omits that chemical abortions now constitute 63% of all U.S. abortions (Guttmacher Institute, 2025) – turning homes into unregulated abortion chambers. Lamentabili Sane condemned such biological materialism: “They reduce the Gospel to a human invention” (1907, Proposition 22). When Illinois mandates campus abortion pills and Connecticut eliminates parental consent, they enact the very educational corruption Pius XI warned against in Divini Illius Magistri: “Schools must form Christ in those regenerated by baptism” (1929).
Judicial Usurpation of Divine Authority
North Dakota’s Supreme Court ruling – preserving exceptions for rape, incest, and maternal health – exemplifies modern jurisprudence’s rejection of Lex aeterna. The 1917 Code of Canon Law mandated excommunication for all abortion participants (Canon 2350), recognizing no exceptions. By contrast, the article celebrates Wyoming’s blocked ultrasound law as a “pro-life win” while ignoring that 30 states permit abortion past 22 weeks. This moral equivalence framing violates the Thomistic principle: “Tolerance of vice is not liberty, but slavery” (Summa Theologiae I-II Q.96 A.2).
Conclusion: The Anti-Kingdom’s False Mercy
Maryland’s “Public Health Abortion Grant Program” and Colorado’s emergency room mandates embody the anti-church’s sacramental parody – replacing Eucharistic altars with abortion tables. As Leo XIII warned in Rerum Novarum, “When the State lays hands on sacred things, it commits sacrilege” (1891). The article’s concluding statistics – 13 states prohibiting most abortions versus 30 permitting late-term killing – reveal not political balance, but civilization’s suicide pact. Until civil leaders acknowledge Christ’s Social Kingship, all policy debates remain mere rearrangements of Golgotha’s furniture.
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How federal and state abortion policies shifted in 2025 (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 30.12.2025