Pro-Life Window Dressing: Moms.gov Diverts Attention From the Real Assault on Life
The EWTN News / National Catholic Register article from May 11, 2026, reports on the launch of Moms.gov by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., timed to Mother’s Day 2026. The article describes the website as offering pregnancy-related resources, directing expectant parents to pregnancy resource centers (PRCs), Federally Qualified Health Centers, fertility awareness-based methods (FABMs), and information on nutrition, breastfeeding, and mental health. Notably, the article states the website “does not reference in vitro fertilization (IVF),” even as the Labor Department simultaneously proposed a rule expanding IVF insurance coverage. Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk of the National Catholic Bioethics Center offered cautious praise for the site’s avoidance of direct abortion and contraception promotion while noting problematic CDC-linked content. Dr. Monique Yohanan framed the initiative as offering “real choice” through “real support” for women. The article thus presents a secular government initiative as broadly compatible with Catholic pro-life concerns while the very same administration advances IVF coverage — a practice the Catholic Church unequivocally condemns as gravely immoral. This juxtaposition reveals the fundamental inadequacy of evaluating political initiatives through a purely naturalistic “pro-life” lens while ignoring the supernatural order and the Church’s immutable moral teaching.









