Pro-Life Activism’s Fatal Omission: Neglecting Christ’s Kingship in the Abortion Battle
The EWTN News portal (January 22, 2026) reports on Live Action’s campaign urging Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to remove the abortion drug mifepristone from the market. Their undercover investigation allegedly reveals Planned Parenthood’s routine violations of safety protocols in distributing chemical abortion pills, including failure to verify gestational age, screen for ectopic pregnancies, or provide adequate medical oversight. The article quotes Live Action President Lila Rose stating: “We’re here to call on the administration and the FDA to remove these lethal drugs from the market,” while Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan Anderson cites data suggesting higher complication rates than previously acknowledged. Several Republican congressmen attended their press conference supporting regulatory action.
Naturalistic Reduction of Moral Catastrophe to Technical Violations
The article exemplifies the modernist tendency to reduce the intrinsic evil (malum in se) of abortion to a mere regulatory compliance issue. While documenting Planned Parenthood’s violations of FDA protocols, the report implicitly accepts the legitimacy of chemical abortion itself if performed under “safer” conditions. This contradicts the irreformable teaching of the Church that abortion constitutes “unchanged and unchangeable” mortal sin regardless of method (Pius IX, Quanta Cura 1864). The investigative focus on hemorrhaging risks and fraudulent addresses obscures the primacy of the supernatural order – the eternal damnation of souls involved in child-murder.
“Planned Parenthood even says that taking the abortion pill is safer for the mother than ‘carrying to term’”
Such relativistic framing – debating comparative physical risks while ignoring the spiritual holocaust – mirrors the naturalism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Nowhere does the analysis reference the divine mandate for civil authorities to “serve the Lord with fear” (Psalms 2:11) by outlawing all abortion without exception.
Illusory Solutions Through Apostate Civil Structures
The petition to Kennedy’s HHS and Makary’s FDA constitutes a fatal category error. These agencies operate within a U.S. government that has formally rejected Christ’s social kingship through:
- The 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut decision inventing “privacy rights” for contraception
- The 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling enshrining child-murder
- The 2015 Obergefell imposition of counterfeit “marriage”
To seek remedy from such structurally anti-Christian institutions ignores Pius XI’s warning: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states…the entire human society must be shaken” (Quas Primas, 1925). The article’s quoted lawmakers – Cloud, Harris, Downing et al. – exemplify the heresy of Americanism by treating abortion as a standalone policy issue rather than symptomatic of national apostasy requiring sacramental penance.
Ecumenical Collusion With Non-Catholic Actors
Live Action’s alliance with Ryan Anderson’s Ethics and Public Policy Center constitutes forbidden religious indifferentism. Anderson, as a Protestant, inherently rejects the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus dogma defined at Lateran IV. The collaboration mirrors the conciliar sect’s false ecumenism condemned in Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928): “Those who hold such a view are not only in error; they distort the true idea of religion and reject it.” The investigation’s exclusive focus on medical risks while avoiding calls for conversion to the Catholic Faith reduces pro-life activism to mere humanitarianism – a betrayal of the Church’s primary mission to save souls.
Omission of the Church’s True Weapons Against Abortion
The report’s proposed solution – tighter FDA regulations – stands in blasphemous contrast to the Church’s proven spiritual arsenal:
- Excommunication of abortionists and accomplices (Codex Iuris Canonici 1917, Can. 2350)
- Interdicts against regions permitting child-murder
- Mandatory restitution from abortionists to victims’ families
- Reparation through Eucharistic adoration and Marian consecration
Nowhere does Live Action demand that Kennedy or the congressmen fulfill their positive duty to establish Catholicism as the state religion (Pius IX, Syllabus Error 77). Their silence confirms the movement’s captivity to Enlightenment errors about “religious liberty” – heresies anathematized by Bl. Pius IX: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which he shall consider true” (Error 15).
The Fatal Silence About Hell’s Eternal Reality
Most damningly, the article never mentions the four last things – death, judgment, heaven, hell – awaiting abortionists, mothers, and complicit officials. This omission exposes the modernist subtext: a naturalistic worldview denying supernatural consequences. Contrast this with the Roman Catechism‘s clarity: “Those who procure abortion are murderers, and…are subject to the canonical punishments enacted against murderers” (Part III, 5,6). When Lila Rose states “destroying the lives of American children,” she neglects to specify that abortion destroys souls – both the murdered infants and their killers – for eternity unless they repent. This truncated anthropology reduces man to mere biological existence, precisely the error condemned in Pius XII’s Humani Generis (1950).
Source:
Live Action urges HHS to take abortion pill off market after undercover investigation (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 22.01.2026