Pro-Life Legalism: The Modernist Avoidance of Christ’s Kingship

EWTN News portal reports that twenty-one state attorneys general and dozens of U.S. senators and representatives have filed amicus briefs supporting Louisiana’s lawsuit challenging the FDA’s mail-order abortion pill policy. The briefs argue the Biden-era policy lacked evidentiary basis for safety, risks women’s health by eliminating in-person screening for contraindications like ectopic pregnancy, and facilitates coercion. Additionally, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by Massachusetts pregnancy centers against the state’s “education campaign” targeting them. West Virginia’s Senate passed a bill penalizing mail-order abortion pill distributors, and New Hampshire considers repealing its buffer zone law around abortion clinics. The entire article frames the abortion question as a matter of regulatory policy, state rights, and women’s health, with no reference to Catholic doctrine, the supernatural order, or the reign of Christ the King.