Secular “Pro-Life” Measures Mask Capitulation to Culture of Death
EWTN News portal reports on Republican-led legislative efforts purportedly advancing pro-life causes, including funding pregnancy resource centers (HR 6945), requiring colleges to accommodate pregnant students (HR 6359), prohibiting interstate abortion trafficking of minors (HR 4964/SB 6), and mandating medical care for infants surviving abortions (SB 6). The article frames these as victories ahead of the 2026 March for Life.
Naturalism Displaces Supernatural Finality
The cited article reduces life issues to political bargaining rather than upholding the lex divina (divine law) demanding total abolition of abortion. While claiming to “love them both — mother and preborn child” (Kristan Hawkins), the measures operate within the heretical framework of incrementalism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.”
Omission of Catholic Non-Negotiables
Nowhere do legislators invoke Casti Connubii‘s condemnation of abortion as “horrible crime” (Pius XI, 1930) or the Syllabus of Errors’ rejection of religious indifferentism (Pius IX, Proposition 15). Rep. Chris Smith’s statement that pregnancy centers “affirm the breathtaking miracle of unborn life” ignores the necessity of explicitly condemning abortion as homicide deserving capital punishment (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II-II Q.64). The article applauds Sen. James Lankford for criminalizing neglect of abortion survivors while remaining silent on the greater crime — the abortion attempt itself — which traditional canon law punished with excommunication (Codex Iuris Canonici 1917, Canon 2350).
False Equivalence with Conciliar “Pro-Life” Activism
The March for Life exemplifies the neo-church’s syncretism, gathering heretics and Catholics under a secular banner. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis that Modernists reduce religion to “vital immanence” divorced from dogma — precisely the error when Students for Life Action’s Hawkins praises bipartisan efforts to “expose Democrats’ extremist views.” True Catholic action demands integral submission to Christ the King, not political theater.
Structural Apostasy of the U.S. Regime
All proposed legislation implicitly accepts the illegitimate authority of a regime constitutionally opposed to Christ’s Social Reign. As Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 39): “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.” The article’s celebration of federal funding for pregnancy centers (HR 6945) ignores the theological impossibility of accepting Caesar’s stolen money — extracted via usurious taxation — to perform works of mercy.
Conclusion: Natural Goodness Without Grace Becomes Demonic
While temporal protection of life remains preferable to its destruction, these measures constitute a demonic parody of true Catholic action. They offer humanitarian aid while refusing to demand conversion, impose just penalties for child-murder, or restore the Social Reign of Christ the King. As St. Augustine warned, “Virtues without Christ are but splendid vices” — a truth ignored by the conciliar sect’s collaborators in Washington.
Source:
Pro-life legislative action ramps up ahead of March for Life (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 22.01.2026