EWTN News reports on U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s introduction of the Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act, which seeks to ban mifepristone for abortions while preserving its use for miscarriage management, citing safety studies showing higher complication rates for chemical abortions and featuring testimony from pro-life obstetricians about severe harms. The article also notes a settlement with an abortion pill distributor over deceptive ads in South Dakota.
The ARTICLE exemplifies the modernist reduction of the abortion crisis to a naturalistic public health issue, utterly omitting the supernatural moral law and the kingship of Christ over all nations. By relying on secular arguments of safety and tort law, it perpetuates the conciliar church’s apostasy from integral Catholic doctrine, which demands that the state punish abortion as a crime against God and protect the innocent by divine mandate, not merely by empirical risk assessment.
Naturalistic Reduction of a Mortal Sin to a Health Hazard
The ARTICLE frames abortion exclusively through the lens of women’s safety and medical complications, quoting studies on hospitalizations and adverse effects, and advocating for federal tort claims against the government. This approach fundamentally contradicts Catholic theology, which condemns abortion as an intrinsically evil act that violates the Fifth Commandment and the natural law written on the heart. As Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas, “the state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… but it is necessary that Christ reign in the mind of man, whose duty it is to accept revealed truths with complete submission to the divine will.” The ARTICLE’s silence on the moral object—the killing of an innocent human soul—reveals a naturalistic mentality that treats abortion as a technical problem rather than a sin crying to heaven for vengeance. By focusing on “safety concerns” and “harm to women,” it implies that if abortion were medically safe, it might be tolerable, thus echoing the modernist error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu: “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Prop. 25). Catholic doctrine, however, holds that abortion is always mortally sinful, regardless of circumstances, because it directly attacks the inviolable right to life granted by God alone.
Omission of Superrealities: Sin, Grace, and the Social Reign of Christ
The ARTICLE contains not a single reference to the soul of the unborn child, the state of grace, the danger of eternal damnation for those who procure or perform abortions, or the Church’s divine mandate to teach and govern nations. This omission is not accidental but symptomatic of the conciliar sect’s apostasy. Pius XI in Quas Primas insisted that “all power in heaven and on earth is given to Christ the Lord” and that rulers must “publicly honor Christ and obey Him,” ordering laws on “the basis of God’s commandments and Christian principles.” The ARTICLE’s authors, writing for EWTN—a flagship of the post-conciliar abomination—ignore this fundamental truth. They present a bill that operates within the secular framework of “human rights” and “health policy,” thereby endorsing the indifferentist error condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “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” (Error 77). By not demanding that the state recognize Christ’s law as supreme, they collaborate with the separation of Church and state that Pius IX called “the abomination of desolation.”
Modernist Hermeneutics in Pro-Life Strategy
The ARTICLE’s reliance on empirical studies and tort law reflects the modernist evolution of doctrine, where immutable moral truths are subordinated to changing “scientific” and legal paradigms. This is precisely the error St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu: “Dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy… are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness” (Prop. 54). The pro-life movement, as portrayed by EWTN, has abandoned the categorical language of divine law for the probabilistic language of risk assessment. Dr. Christina Francis’s testimony about “severe bleeding, severe infections” reduces abortion to a medical malfunction, not a moral catastrophe. The bill itself, by allowing mifepristone for miscarriages, introduces a pragmatic distinction that dilutes the absolute prohibition on any action that could cause an abortion, echoing the casuistry condemned by the Council of Trent. True Catholic teaching, as articulated by Pius IX, holds that “the Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” (Error 24), but this refers to the Church’s spiritual authority; the state, however, must use its coercive power to punish abortion as a violation of natural and divine law, as Leo XIII taught in Immortale Dei. The ARTICLE’s failure to invoke this duty exposes the conciliar church’s retreat from the social kingship of Christ.
Conciliar Church’s Complicity in the Culture of Death
EWTN News, as an organ of the neo-church, propagates a pro-life stance that is inherently compromised by the conciliar revolution’s embrace of religious liberty and dialogue with the world. The ARTICLE quotes no pre-1958 papal documents or Church Fathers, instead relying on contemporary “life-affirming groups” and political figures like Sen. Hawley, who operates within a pluralistic framework that the Syllabus condemns. Error 80 of the Syllabus states: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization”—a proposition Pius IX anathematized. Yet EWTN’s coverage implicitly accepts the modern state’s neutrality on religion, advocating for a law based on “safety” rather than on the exclusive rights of Christ the King. This is the fruit of Vatican II’s “hermeneutics of continuity,” which the integral Catholic faith rejects as a synthesis of all heresies. The bill, while potentially reducing abortions, does not call for the conversion of the United States to the one true faith or the establishment of Catholic social order, as demanded by Quas Primas: “the whole human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” Instead, it seeks to regulate evil within a system that already legalizes murder, thereby legitimizing the very structures of apostasy.
Conclusion: The Need for Integral Catholic Action
The ARTICLE’s emphasis on safety and legal remedies, while superficially pro-life, is a dangerous illusion that perpetuates the modernist error of separating morality from revelation. It fails to proclaim that abortion is a mortal sin that offends God and destroys society, as Pius XI warned: “when God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken.” True Catholic action must demand the public reign of Christ the King, the suppression of abortion as a crime against divine law, and the conversion of the nation to the faith—not merely the tweaking of drug regulations within a godless system. The conciliar church’s approach, as evidenced by EWTN’s reporting, is a betrayal of the immutable doctrine that “there is no power in us that is exempt from this reign” of Christ. Until the faithful reject the usurpers in Rome and return to the pre-1958 Magisterium, such efforts will remain fruitless, as they operate outside the kingdom of Christ and within the “abomination of desolation” spoken of by Daniel.
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Bill to safeguard women from chemical abortion introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.03.2026