Senate Hearing Exposes Moral Bankruptcy of Abortion Pill Debate
The Catholic News Agency portal (January 15, 2026) reports on a U.S. Senate Health Committee hearing concerning mifepristone, where Republican lawmakers demanded stricter Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations while Democratic senators advocated for unrestricted access. Committee Chairman Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) criticized the Obama and Biden administrations for eliminating in-person medical safeguards, stating: “It’s only through a proper medical examination that a doctor can determine a baby’s gestational age, ensure a woman does not have an ectopic pregnancy, and be sure the abortion will not jeopardize future fertility.” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill testified about cases of coerced abortions and complications from mail-order pills, while Democratic witnesses dismissed safety concerns as a pretext to restrict “reproductive rights.” The hearing exemplified the naturalistic reduction of moral evil to bureaucratic technicalities.
Regulating Evil: The Fatal Concession to Intrinsic Disorder
The entire debate rests on a fundamentally heretical premise: that child-murder can be “regulated” rather than eradicated. While Cassidy and Murrill raised valid concerns about health risks, their arguments implicitly accept abortion’s moral legitimacy when performed under “safer” conditions. This contradicts the unchangeable teaching of Pope Pius XI: “Christ has dominion over all creatures, a dominion not seized by violence nor usurped but His by essence and by nature” (Quas Primas, §7). No civil authority may license what God condemns as “intrinsically evil” (Pius XI, Casti Connubii, §64). The hearing’s focus on gestational age verification and ectopic pregnancy screening ignores the inherent criminality of abortion itself—a crime no medical precaution can legitimize.
Naturalism Masquerading as Compassion
Democratic witnesses exemplified the hermeneutic of rupture with Catholic morality. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) dismissed safety concerns as a smokescreen, declaring: “It is about the ongoing effort of my friends in the Republican Party to deny the women of this country the basic right to control their own bodies.” This rhetoric enshrines autonomous will as the supreme moral criterion, directly defying Pope Pius IX’s condemnation of the proposition that “human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (Syllabus of Errors, §3). Dr. Nisha Verma’s testimony compounded this error by equating miscarriage care with abortion—a sophistical conflation condemned by Pius XII: “Direct abortion, that is, abortion intended as an end or as a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law” (Address to Midwives, 1951).
Conciliar Sect’s Silence Screams Apostasy
Nowhere does the article mention opposition to abortion as a non-negotiable moral absolute—a silence reflecting the conciliar sect’s decades-long betrayal. The Vatican II sect abandoned the language of “intrinsic evil” in favor of diplomatic platitudes about “respect for life,” enabling Catholic politicians like President Robert Kennedy Jr. to oversee murder-by-mail while claiming to “follow the science.” St. Pius X foresaw this collapse when he condemned Modernists who “falsify dogma by changing its meaning” (Lamentabili Sane, §22). The FDA’s “safety review” of mifepristone—treating child-killing as a pharmaceutical regulation issue—epitomizes the naturalization of sin that Vatican II institutionalized.
The Kingship of Christ Ignored, the Reign of Man Enthroned
Both Republican and Democratic senators operate within a framework of practical atheism, debating logistics of homicide while ignoring divine judgment. As Pius XI taught: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states, the foundations of authority are destroyed” (Quas Primas, §18). The hearing’s medicalized jargon (“gestational age,” “adverse events”) obscures the metaphysical reality: each abortion rejects Christ’s sovereignty over life and death. Murrill’s testimony about babies discarded in dumpsters proves the demonic terminus of John XXIII’s “opening to the world”—a world where man, not God, decides who lives.
Conclusion: No Compromise With Moloch
True Catholics must reject all collaboration with abortion’s infrastructure, whether “regulated” or not. The hearing’s participants—Republicans seeking to “reduce harm” and Democrats celebrating “choice”—are equally complicit in what Leo XIII called “the diabolical specter of a society without God” (Humanum Genus, §36). Until civil leaders acknowledge Christ as King and His Church as the sole arbiter of moral law (Pius IX, Syllabus, §19), such debates will merely rearrange deck chairs on Hell’s Titanic.
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Republican senators urge more regulations on abortion pill in Senate hearing (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 15.01.2026