The “Bereaved Parents Rights Act” — A Law Without Baptism, a Right Without God
EWTN News portal reports that Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Florida) are introducing the so-called “Bereaved Parents Rights Act,” legislation that would require hospitals to inform parents of their rights regarding the burial or cremation of miscarried or stillborn children. The bill is backed by Students for Life Action, whose president Kristan Hawkins framed it as a matter of basic human dignity. The article is saturated with the language of “rights,” “dignity,” and “closure” — yet it is entirely silent on the one question that, from the perspective of integral Catholic faith, dwarfs all others: the eternal destiny of the soul and the absolute necessity of baptism. This silence is not accidental; it is the hallmark of a civilization that has severed law from theology and reduced the human person to a biological organism whose only value lies in the emotional comfort of the living.




