Catholic News Agency reports on recent pro-life developments in the United States, noting that 80% of Americans express concerns about embryonic screening techniques allowing selection of children based on genetic traits. The article details legislative efforts in South Carolina that would criminalize women obtaining abortions, opposition to mail-order abortion drugs by three state attorneys general, and a Texas study showing decreased abortions among minors following heartbeat legislation. The report includes statements from pro-life organizations and government officials while framing these issues through contemporary political discourse rather than eternal Catholic principles.
Embryo Screening: Eugenic Abortion Disguised as Progress
The article’s discussion of embryonic screening reveals the inherent eugenic mentality poisoning modern society. When the Ethics and Public Policy Center poll states that “four in five voters have some at least some concerns about embryo screening,” it exposes the catastrophic failure of post-conciliar catechesis. That merely 80% object to this practice – rather than 100% – demonstrates how deeply the culture of death has infiltrated even nominal Christian circles.
The unchanging Catholic position (Syllabus of Errors, condemned propositions 64-65) holds that all human life – regardless of genetic “imperfections” – possesses inviolable dignity as imago Dei. The very notion of “screening” embryos constitutes preemptive murder of those deemed unworthy of life. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) reminds us that Christ’s kingship extends to all creation: “He has received power, and honor, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes, and tongues shall serve him.” The article’s neutral presentation of this genocidal technology – framing it as a “concern” rather than an intrinsic evil – exemplifies the naturalistic reduction of moral theology condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907).
Post-Conciliar Confusion on Abortion Penalties
The South Carolina legislation debate exposes the theological bankruptcy of neo-church “pro-life” movements. While correctly opposing criminalization of post-abortive women, Holly Gatling of South Carolina Citizens for Life employs utilitarian arguments rather than doctrinal clarity. She warns the bill “would shut down post-abortion ministries such as Rachel’s Vineyard” and “jeopardize pregnancy care centers” – pragmatic concerns ignoring the primary evil of abortion itself.
True Catholic teaching balances justice with mercy. Canon 2350 of the 1917 Code prescribed excommunication latae sententiae for all abortion participants – including mothers – while pastoral practice distinguished between coerced and voluntary acts. The article’s failure to cite Casti Connubii (1930) – which calls abortion “an unspeakable crime” – exemplifies the modernist tendency to reduce mortal sin to a “women’s health issue.” The silence about sacramental confession as the only path to authentic post-abortion healing reveals the article’s naturalistic anthropology.
Judicial Rulings and Chemical Warfare Against Life
The Herzog Foundation’s legal victory against Biden’s abortion accommodation mandate receives superficial treatment. While correctly noting the First Amendment implications, the article ignores the deeper issue: no human authority can legitimize child murder. Pius IX’s Syllabus (condemned proposition 55) anathematizes the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The court’s reliance on constitutional interpretation rather than divine law exposes the Protestant foundations of American jurisprudence.
The challenge against mail-order abortion drugs by conservative attorneys general – while commendable – represents another half-measure. Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s statement that “Mifepristone is sending women to the emergency room” focuses on physical risks rather than the spiritual homicide of abortion. Where is the reference to Canon 2350’s automatic excommunication? The article’s medicalized language (“1 in 25 women will go to the emergency room”) continues the neo-church pattern of reducing mortal sin to a public health statistic.
Texas Statistics: Masking the Full Truth
The reported decrease in Texas abortions following heartbeat legislation merits severe critique. The study’s pro-abortion authors lament reductions as threats to “young people’s reproductive autonomy” – a phrase the article quotes without condemnation. This blasphemous terminology equates child murder with legitimate freedom. The true Catholic position (Quas Primas) demands recognition that “rulers of states must fulfill their duty [to Christ] themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate.”
The article’s celebration of statistical improvements ignores the greater scandal: Texas still tolerates thousands of annual abortions. Where is the call for complete prohibition as in pre-1958 Catholic nations? The silence echoes the conciliar sect’s betrayal of Casti Connubii‘s uncompromising stance.
Structural Apostasy in “Pro-Life” Reporting
Throughout this report, Catholic News Agency demonstrates its complicity with modernist errors. The very term “pro-life” has been emptied of doctrinal content, reduced to political positioning rather than the integral defense of Catholic morality. Not once does the article mention the necessity of sacraments for post-abortion healing, the duty of states to honor Christ the King through legal protections for life, or the eternal consequences of abortion.
The report’s focus on polling data, legislative tactics, and court battles reveals a naturalistic worldview condemned by St. Pius X: “The truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” (Lamentabili Sane, condemned proposition 58). Until self-styled “Catholic” media return to the immutable principles of the pre-conciliar Magisterium, they remain obstacles to the true restoration of Christ’s social reign.
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4 out of 5 Americans have concerns with embryonic screening, study finds (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 22.11.2025