Catholic News Agency reports on January 22, 2026, that Live Action has urged Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to remove mifepristone from the market following undercover footage showing Planned Parenthood’s routine safety violations. The investigation documents failures to verify gestational age, screen for ectopic pregnancies, or provide follow-up care—resulting in severe hemorrhaging risks for women. Live Action President Lila Rose condemned the drugs as “mass death on demand,” citing 7.5 million unborn deaths since the Clinton-era FDA approval. While congressional Republicans attended the press conference, the article frames abortion regulation as a matter of consumer safety rather than intrinsic evil.
The Naturalistic Reduction of Child Murder to “Safety Violations”
The article’s focus on regulatory noncompliance obscures the foundational crime: the direct killing of innocent human life. Quoting Live Action’s claim that “10.93% of women experienced sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event” implicitly concedes a utilitarian framework—as if abortion’s moral gravity depended on maternal complication rates. This echoes the naturalistic fallacy condemned by Pope Pius XI in Casti Connubii: “No reason, however grave, may be put forward by which anything intrinsically against nature may become conformable to nature and morally good” (¶74).
“Planned Parenthood even says that taking the abortion pill is safer for the mother than ‘carrying to term,’”
This demonstrably false claim—rebutted by Live Action’s data—reveals deeper apostasy. The Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns the notion that “moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction” (Error #56). By reducing abortion to a consumer safety issue, the article’s secular framing ignores the divine law “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13) and the Church’s unbroken teaching that abortion is homicidium imperfectum (imperfect homicide) meriting excommunication (Codex Iuris Canonici 1917, Canon 2350 §1).
Euphemistic Language as a Tool of Cultural Corruption
The term “chemical abortion” sanitizes the reality of feticide. This linguistic subterfuge mirrors the Modernist tendency to dilute doctrine through ambiguity, as St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili sane exitu: “The pursuit of novelty… causes the heritage of humanity to be rejected, and often leads to the most grievous errors” (I). Similarly, focusing on “parental notice circumvention” tacitly accepts the legitimacy of minor abortions with parental consent—a violation of the Church’s absolute prohibition.
“Mifepristone, used as an abortive agent, should no longer be allowed in the United States…”
Rose’s phrasing—”abortive agent”—diminishes the drug’s ontological function: an instrument of murder. Contrast this with Pope Pius XII’s unambiguous language: “The direct destruction of so-called ‘worthless life’… is a crime against God’s commandment” (Address to Midwives, 1951). The article’s clinical tone (“gestational age,” “ectopic pregnancy screening”) further desacralizes life’s sanctity, reducing children to biological variables.
Theological Bankruptcy of Secular “Pro-Life” Activism
Live Action’s appeal to secular authorities (HHS, FDA) exemplifies the post-conciliar error of seeking temporal solutions to spiritual crises. As Pope Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority are destroyed” (¶32). No regulatory tweak can rectify a society that rejects Christ’s kingship.
Moreover, the featured politicians—Republicans like Dan Crenshaw and Andy Biggs—support contraceptive funding and IVF practices equally condemned by the Church. Their selective opposition to abortion while ignoring proximate evils reflects the heresy of Americanism censured in Leo XIII’s Testem Benevolentiae: an adulteration of Catholicism to accommodate pluralism.
The Silence of the Conciliar Sect
Nowhere does the article mention ecclesial condemnation of abortion by name—a damning omission revealing the conciliar sect’s capitulation to modernity. Compare this to Pope Pius IX’s anathema: “If anyone denies that the first man Adam… by the prevarication of his transgression incurred the anger of God… let him be anathema” (Syllabus, Condemned Proposition 26). The post-Vatican II establishment, by contrast, issues ambiguous pleas for “life” while tolerating abortionists like Nancy Pelosi receiving “Communion.”
The true Church’s position remains unchanging: Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (“Outside the Church there is no salvation”). Secular pro-life movements, however well-intentioned, cannot substitute for the societas perfecta founded by Christ. Until nations submit to His Social Kingship—publicly professed and legally enforced—no political campaign will stem the culture of death.
Source:
Live Action urges HHS to take abortion pill off market after undercover investigation (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 22.01.2026