EWTN News portal reports that twenty-one state attorneys general and dozens of U.S. senators and representatives have filed amicus briefs supporting Louisiana’s lawsuit challenging the FDA’s mail-order abortion pill policy. The briefs argue the Biden-era policy lacked evidentiary basis for safety, risks women’s health by eliminating in-person screening for contraindications like ectopic pregnancy, and facilitates coercion. Additionally, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by Massachusetts pregnancy centers against the state’s “education campaign” targeting them. West Virginia’s Senate passed a bill penalizing mail-order abortion pill distributors, and New Hampshire considers repealing its buffer zone law around abortion clinics. The entire article frames the abortion question as a matter of regulatory policy, state rights, and women’s health, with no reference to Catholic doctrine, the supernatural order, or the reign of Christ the King.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Abortion Question
The article’s entire premise rests on a naturalistic, secular framework that treats the abominable crime of abortion as a mere regulatory and public health issue. The lawmakers’ brief states: “The Biden FDA did not have a sufficient evidentiary basis to conclude that eliminating the in-person dispensing requirement was safe… women cannot be meaningfully screened for serious contraindications… It also increases the likelihood that some women are being coerced into taking these drugs against their will.” This language reduces the murder of the innocent to a question of medical protocol and personal autonomy, utterly divorced from the divine law which condemns it as a mortal sin crying to heaven for vengeance. The Syllabus of Errors, promulgated by Pius IX, condemns this very mindset: “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction, and it is not at all necessary that human laws should be made conformable to the laws of nature and receive their power of binding from God” (Prop. 56). Further, “All the truths of religion proceed from the innate strength of human reason; hence reason is the ultimate standard by which man can and ought to arrive at the knowledge of all truths of every kind” (Prop. 4). By arguing solely on grounds of “safety,” “coercion,” and “state authority,” the pro-life legal strategy implicitly accepts the modernist error that moral truth is determined by human reason and empirical evidence, not by the unchangeable decrees of God. The article’s silence on the intrinsic evil of abortion—its violation of the Fifth Commandment and the sanctity of the innocent blood of Christ reflected in every child—is a deliberate omission that exposes the apostasy of the conciliar sect. The true Catholic position, defined repeatedly by the Magisterium, is that abortion is not a “health issue” but a crimen nefandum (detestable crime) that incurs automatic excommunication (Canon 1398, 1917 Code) and severs the soul from sanctifying grace.
Omission of Supernatural Consequences
The gravest accusation against the article and the entire pro-life movement it depicts is its total silence on supernatural matters. There is no mention of the state of grace, the necessity of the sacraments, the eternal judgment, or the damnation that awaits unrepentant murderers. The article discusses “hospitalizations,” “state laws,” and “free speech,” but never the fate of the soul that commits or procures an abortion. This omission is not accidental but symptomatic of the modernist infection that has consumed the post-Conciliar structures. St. Pius X, in Lamentabili sane exitu, condemned the proposition that “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Prop. 25). Yet the pro-life argument presented here reduces the sacredness of human life to a probability to be weighed by courts and legislatures, not a certain truth of divine revelation. The article fails to proclaim that every abortion is a sacrilege against the Body of Christ, a desecration of the temple of the Holy Ghost (1 Cor. 6:19), and an act that excludes the perpetrator from the Kingdom of Heaven unless repented in the sacrament of confession. The conciliar sect, by its silence on these truths, has exchanged the salus animarum (salvation of souls) for a purely naturalistic “culture of life” that has no power to save souls. The true Catholic teaching, as expressed by Pius XI in Quas Primas, is that Christ’s reign must order all relations in the state, including the protection of innocent life, precisely because “all power in heaven and on earth is given to Christ the Lord” (Matt. 28:18). To omit this is to deny the kingship of Christ.
False Hope in Secular Courts and Legislatures
The article champions legal and political maneuvers—amicus briefs, state Senate votes, federal lawsuits—as the primary means to combat abortion. This represents a theological disaster: placing hope in the arm of flesh rather than in the arm of God. The Syllabus of Errors condemns the notion that the state can be neutral in religious matters or that civil authority has the right to legislate independently of divine law. Prop. 77 states: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.” Prop. 55 declares: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” By framing the pro-life cause in terms of “state rights” and “federal overreach,” the article’s protagonists accept the very separation of Church and state that Pius IX anathematized. They appeal to the Constitution and “first amendment rights” rather than to the lex divina that commands “Thou shalt not kill”. Pius XI in Quas Primas thundered: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” He added: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The article’s heroes are not calling rulers to obey Christ the King; they are petitioning a godless state to impose half-measures that leave the fundamental evil—the denial of Christ’s reign—intact. This is the fruit of the conciliar sect’s embrace of Dignitatis Humanae and its doctrine of religious liberty, which Pius IX condemned as “false and entirely contrary to the Catholic Church’s teaching” (Syllabus, Prop. 15-18). The true Catholic approach, as seen in the Syllabus and the encyclicals of Leo XIII, is to demand that the state recognize the Catholic religion as the sole religion of the state and enact laws that punish abortion as a crime against God and society. The current strategy, by accepting the secular state’s legitimacy, is a betrayal of the Social Reign of Christ.
The Conciliar Sect’s Doctrinal Collapse
EWTN News, as a mouthpiece of the conciliar sect, promotes this naturalistic pro-lifeism because it has itself abandoned the integral Catholic faith. The article’s language—”reproductive health,” “women’s health,” “education campaign,” “free speech”—mirrors the modernist terminology condemned by St. Pius X. The Syllabus (Prop. 56) already warned: “Science is to be treated without taking any account of supernatural revelation.” The conciliar sect, by accepting the secular category of “reproductive rights,” has surrendered the battlefield of ideas to the enemies of Christ. The article mentions “crisis pregnancy centers” but frames their work as “life-affirming” rather than as a supernatural mission to save souls from mortal sin and hell. There is no call to “preach Christ the King” (Quas Primas) or to demand the conversion of the United States to the Catholic faith. Instead, the focus is on “safety” and “informed consent”—a Jansenist-like rigorism that reduces morality to external acts while ignoring the internal forum. The conciliar sect’s hierarchy, by failing to excommunicate Catholic politicians who support abortion and by refusing to teach the doctrine of the Social Kingship of Christ, is complicit in this apostasy. The article’s omission of any reference to the papal encyclicals Quas Primas or Casti Connubii, or to the Code of Canon Law’s penalties for abortion, is not an oversight but a deliberate suppression of Catholic doctrine in favor of a palatable, naturalistic “pro-life” stance that can be accepted by atheists, Protestants, and “conservative” Jews. This is the essence of Modernism: to adapt the Church’s message to the world’s preferences. As Pius X taught in Pascendi Dominici gregis, the Modernist “seeks to win the confidence of the people by showing himself as one of them, by speaking their language, by adopting their customs, by appearing to take part in their pursuits.” The pro-life movement described here does exactly that, speaking the language of “health” and “rights” rather than the language of “Thou shalt not kill” and “the wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23).
The Only Catholic Response: The Reign of Christ the King
The true Catholic response to the abortion holocaust is not to file amicus briefs but to proclaim the Social Kingship of Christ and demand that all nations obey His law. Pius XI in Quas Primas declared: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ… It is therefore necessary that Christ reign in the mind of man… in the will… in the heart… in the body.” He warned: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken.” The article’s protagonists, by ignoring this, are fighting a losing battle within the framework of the very apostasy that produced abortion. They seek to “restore” a Christian society without Christ the King; they demand “safeguards” while accepting the fundamental error of the separation of Church and state. The Syllabus (Prop. 19) condemns: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church.” Today’s pro-life legalists, by appealing to the FDA and the courts, tacitly accept that the state defines the limits of the Church’s rights—including the right to protect the unborn. This is a surrender to the errors of the French Revolution and the American Constitution, which Pius IX anathematized. The only hope is the conversion of the United States to the Catholic faith and the establishment of the Social Reign of Christ, as prayed for in the feast of Christ the King. Until then, all legal victories are temporary and meaningless, for they do not address the root cause: the rejection of Christ’s kingship. The article’s silence on this truth is a damning indictment of the conciliar sect’s apostasy.
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U.S. lawmakers, state attorneys general urge FDA to block mail-order abortion drugs (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 21.02.2026