The National Catholic Register reports on the resignation of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and the subsequent elevation of Kyle Diamantas as acting commissioner, noting that pro-life advocates celebrated Makary’s departure due to his failure to restrict mifepristone and expressed concern over Diamantas’ past legal work for a Planned Parenthood affiliate. The article presents various reactions from pro-life organizations and Republican senators, all framed within the context of secular political maneuvering and regulatory policy regarding abortion drugs.
The entire discourse—both the article and the actors quoted within it—operates within a fundamentally naturalistic framework that reduces the defense of innocent life to political strategy, bureaucratic appointments, and legal battles, completely ignoring the supernatural reality of the Church’s mission and the absolute primacy of God’s law over human legislation.
The Reduction of the Sanctity of Life to Political Maneuvering
The article presents the defense of unborn children as a matter of political appointments, regulatory reviews, and court battles. Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life frames the issue in terms of replacing one bureaucrat with another: “The new FDA commissioner must be 100% committed to protecting innocent children in the womb AND their mothers.” Lila Rose of Live Action demands that Trump “appoint a pro-life commissioner who will ‘ban the abortion pill now!'” Senator Josh Hawley calls Makary’s resignation “an opportunity for the FDA to reset.”
This is the language of secular political operatives, not of Catholics who understand that the defense of innocent life is a supernatural duty flowing from the Natural Law inscribed by God Himself. The article and its quoted figures treat the massacre of innocents as a policy debate to be won through bureaucratic appointments rather than a moral absolute that admits no compromise. As Pope Pius XI taught in *Quas Primas*, Christ’s kingdom “encompasses all men” and “the state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” Yet here we see pro-life advocates begging secular political actors to grant them regulatory concessions—a profound admission that they have accepted the legitimacy of a secular order that has already rejected Christ the King.
The article notes that “Trump himself committed during his campaign to ensuring the FDA would not threaten access to the abortion pill.” This is the context in which these pro-life advocates operate: seeking mercy from a political leader who has publicly committed to preserving access to the instrument of death. This is not the Catholic approach. The Catholic approach, as defined by the perennial Magisterium, is that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (St. Augustine, quoted by Pius XI in *Quas Primas*). The state has no authority to permit what God forbids, and no Catholic should seek to influence a state that has already declared itself hostile to the Natural Law.
The Absence of Supernatural Reality
Nowhere in this article—nor in any of the statements quoted from pro-life leaders—is there any mention of the supernatural realities that should govern the Catholic response to abortion. There is no mention of the state of grace, of the eternal destiny of the millions of souls destroyed by mifepristone, of the mortal sin committed by those who cooperate in abortion, of the necessity of prayer and penance, or of the judgment of God upon nations that legalize the slaughter of innocents.
Pope Pius IX, in the *Syllabus of Errors*, condemned the proposition that “moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction, and it is not at all necessary that human laws should be made conformable to the laws of nature and receive their power of binding from God” (Proposition 56). The entire framework of this article accepts precisely this error: it treats abortion policy as a matter of human law and political strategy, completely divorced from divine law.
The article quotes Marjorie Dannenfelser saying “we must return immediately to the [first] Trump administration standard of in-person dispensing to protect women from coercion and abuse and allow the enforcement of pro-life state laws.” This is a remarkable statement: the goal is not the total abolition of abortion but rather the restoration of dispensing regulations. The Catholic position, as taught by the unchanging Magisterium, is that abortion is murder—not a regulatory matter to be managed, but an intrinsic evil to be utterly eradicated. As the Council of Trent taught, “if anyone shall say that the sacraments of the New Law are not all instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ… let him be anathema.” The Church has always taught that the moral law admits of no exceptions, no compromises, no regulatory half-measures.
The Illusion of “Pro-Life” Secular Advocacy
The article presents organizations like Students for Life, Live Action, and Americans United for Life as the defenders of the unborn. Yet these organizations operate entirely within the framework of secular politics, seeking to influence the policies of a government that has no legitimate authority to permit abortion. They lobby senators, pressure presidents, and file lawsuits—all while the conciliar sect that claims to be the Church has abandoned its prophetic mission and embraced the very secularism that makes such political battles necessary.
Pope Pius XI warned in *Quas Primas* that “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors” began with “the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations, which authority she received from Christ the Lord to lead men to eternal happiness, was denied.” This is precisely the situation in which these pro-life organizations find themselves: they are fighting a battle that can only be won by the restoration of Christ’s social kingship, yet they never mention this restoration as a goal. They have accepted the secular order as permanent and seek merely to mitigate its worst excesses.
The article notes that Sarah Zagorski of Americans United for Life said the Trump administration “has the opportunity to demonstrate real moral leadership by appointing a commissioner dedicated to protecting women and girls from the harms associated with abortion drugs.” This language—”moral leadership,” “protecting women and girls”—is the language of secular humanitarianism, not of Catholic doctrine. The Catholic position is not that abortion drugs are harmful to women (though they are), but that abortion is murder—the deliberate killing of an innocent human person made in the image and likeness of God. By framing the issue in terms of women’s health rather than the inviolable right to life of the unborn child, these organizations implicitly accept the secular framework that reduces the child to a matter of maternal choice.
The Complicity of the Conciliar Sect
Nowhere does this article mention the role of the conciliar sect in creating and sustaining the conditions under which abortion flourishes. The post-conciliar church, with its embrace of religious liberty (*Dignitatis Humanae*), its false ecumenism, and its abandonment of the Church’s missionary mandate, has effectively surrendered the public square to the enemies of Christ. The “bishops” of the conciliar sect have done nothing—nothing—to excommunicate Catholic politicians who support abortion, nothing to deny them the “Eucharist,” nothing to exercise the Church’s divinely appointed authority to govern the faithful.
Pope Pius IX, in *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio*, declared that any prelate who “has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy” has no authority, and any actions taken by such a person are “null, void, and of no effect.” The conciliar sect, having embraced the heresies of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the evolution of dogmas, has long since forfeited any claim to authority. Its silence on abortion is not merely a failure of leadership; it is the inevitable consequence of an institution that has abandoned the faith it claims to profess.
The article’s quoted figures—Hawkins, Rose, Dannenfelser, Zagorski—operate in a ecclesial vacuum. They have no true Church to guide them, no true bishops to teach them, no true sacraments to sanctify them. They are Catholics in name only, fighting a secular political battle with secular weapons, while the conciliar sect that claims to represent the Church provides no supernatural foundation for their efforts.
The Necessity of Christ the King
The only true solution to the abortion crisis—and to every other moral crisis of our time—is the restoration of the social kingship of Christ. As Pope Pius XI taught, “if men were ever to recognize Christ’s royal authority over themselves, both privately and publicly, then unheard-of blessings would flow upon the whole society, such as due freedom, order, and tranquility, and concord and peace.” The state has no authority to permit abortion, and no Catholic should rest content with lobbying a secular government to impose regulations on the instruments of death.
The Catholic position, as defined by the perennial Magisterium, is that “the Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority” (Pius XI, *Quas Primas*). The Church must teach, govern, and lead all men to eternal happiness—and this includes teaching the state that it has no authority to permit the murder of innocents.
Until the social kingship of Christ is restored—until the state publicly acknowledges the authority of the true Church and submits its laws to the Natural Law—no political appointment, no regulatory review, no court ruling will end the massacre of innocents. The pro-life movement, as represented in this article, is fighting a battle it cannot win because it has accepted the legitimacy of an order that has rejected Christ. As Our Lord Himself said: “Without Me, you can do nothing” (John 15:5).
The faithful must pray for the restoration of the true Church, for the conversion of sinners, and for the triumph of Christ the King over all nations. This is the only hope for the unborn—and for the world.
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Pro-Life Groups Praise FDA Commissioner’s Exit, Flag Acting Leader’s Planned Parenthood Role (ncregister.com)
Date: 12.05.2026