EWTN News reports on January 28, 2026, that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice seeks to halt Louisiana’s lawsuit challenging mail-order abortion pills, prompting condemnation from Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and pro-life advocates. The DOJ claims the FDA’s ongoing review of 2023 deregulation policies justifies delaying judicial intervention, despite admitting prior FDA risk assessments were flawed. Murrill decries this as “an affront to our sovereignty and the dignity of women and the unborn,” citing cases like Rosalie Markezich who was coerced into taking mail-order abortion drugs. The report notes Marjorie Dannenfelser of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America condemning the DOJ’s “denial of justice,” while Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk criticizes mail-order abortion pills as abandoning medical oversight and treating abortion as a “sacred cow.”
Naturalism Masquerading as Governance
The entire dispute operates within a naturalistic framework (reductio ad naturalismum) that reduces human life to disposable biological matter. By framing the abortion pill debate around “safety reviews” and “risk assessments,” both the DOJ and plaintiffs implicitly accept the modernist error that human law can arbitrate when murder becomes permissible. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas explicitly condemns such secular presumption: “Rulers and governments must not think that they are free to pass laws as they please… they are bound to conform their laws to the prescriptions of the divine and natural law” (§32). The DOJ’s motion to pause litigation constitutes tacit approval of chemical murder under the guise of procedural technicalities – a betrayal of the regnum Christi (kingship of Christ) over civil authority.
Theological Omissions Reveal Apostasy
Nowhere does the article mention the eternal consequences of abortion or the Church’s infallible condemnation of this crime against humanity. Canon 2350 §1 of the 1917 Code mandates excommunication latae sententiae for all abortionists and accomplices, a discipline reflecting divine law (Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi – the law of prayer is the law of belief). The silence about sacramental reconciliation for post-abortive women – and the failure to demand criminal penalties for abortionists – exposes the conciliar sect’s complicity in mass murder. As Pius XII taught in his 1951 address to midwives: “Every human being, even the child in the womb, has the right to life directly from God… No human authority can make lawful what is contrary to divine law.”
False Opposition in the Pseudo-Pro-Life Movement
The article’s “pro-life” voices unwittingly reinforce the modernist paradigm by:
- Accepting the FDA’s authority to regulate rather than prohibit abortion drugs
- Focusing on “safety concerns” rather than the intrinsic evil of abortion
- Appealing to Trump’s administration as if civil authority could legitimize through “review” what God condemns
Fr. Pacholczyk’s otherwise valid critique of mail-order abortion pills fatally compromises Catholic principles by suggesting in-person medical supervision could make abortion acceptable. This echoes the condemned proposition of Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “Human reason… is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (§3). True Catholic opposition would demand total prohibition of abortion drugs and public repentance from all involved in their distribution.
The Masonic Subversion of Civil Authority
The DOJ’s defense of abortion pill accessibility follows the Masonic playbook outlined in Pius IX’s 1864 encyclical Quanta Cura, which condemns the “error that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (§3). By prioritizing bureaucratic processes over divine law, the Trump administration proves itself enslaved to the Masonic dogma of religious indifferentism. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane explicitly condemns the proposition that “civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality, and spiritual government” (§44). Louisiana’s lawsuit – while well-intentioned – remains trapped within this anti-Catholic framework by seeking judicial rather than ecclesiastical remedies.
Conclusion: Only Christ the King Offers Solution
The entire controversy confirms the prophetic warning of 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” (§19). Until civil rulers submit to the Social Reign of Christ the King – publicly professed through the Consecration of Nations to the Sacred Heart demanded by Leo XIII – no political maneuvering can stop the culture of death. The conciliar sect’s refusal to denounce this moral catastrophe proves its apostasy from Catholic truth, while pseudo-traditionalists who support Trump’s administration participate in the sacrilege of granting Caesar what belongs to God alone.
Source:
Trump tries to pause abortion pill lawsuit over Louisiana attorney general’s objections (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 28.01.2026