By Kate Quiñones
CNA Workers, November 15, 2024 / 11:20 am
Here’s a abstract of current information associated to abortion and life.
Thune 'an unwavering defender of life'
A professional-life group is praising the GOP's current choice of Sen. John Thune of South Dakota as Republican majority chief to interchange Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell.
Thune has an “A+” ranking from the pro-life advocacy group Susan B. Anthony Professional-Life America. He received the Senate management by 4 votes in opposition to Texas Senator John Cornyn.
Susan B. Anthony Professional-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser referred to as the senator “an unwavering defender of life” in a press release Wednesday.
Dannenfelser cited Thune's introduction of the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Safety Act, designed to make sure high quality medical look after any child born alive throughout botched abortions.
Thune, a pro-life evangelical Christian, spoke about his religion and prayer life in an interview with “EWTN Information Nightly” earlier this yr.
UN warns in opposition to discriminatory abortions
A United Nations human rights committee not too long ago highlighted issues about abortion concentrating on unborn infants with Down syndrome in some Western international locations, together with the Netherlands and Belgium.
The Committee on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities (CRPD) warned in opposition to discrimination in the direction of folks with Down syndrome, noting that ladies are prone to abort their unborn infants after receiving a prenatal prognosis of Down syndrome.
The committee's 2024 report on Belgium famous that “societal perceptions that folks with Down syndrome and different impairments are much less helpful than different folks contribute to the excessive degree of selective termination of pregnancies following prenatal diagnoses of Down syndrome or different impairments.” deficiencies.”
The report advisable that Belgium “take measures to coach and sensitize well being personnel on the rights of individuals with disabilities and on how you can present neutral steerage and help to future dad and mom after a prenatal prognosis of Down syndrome or different impairments to allow them take full benefit of knowledgeable choices about being pregnant.”
The 2024 report for the Netherlands equally cited “studies of strain exerted by well being personnel on expectant dad and mom to terminate pregnancies after a prognosis of Down syndrome or one other incapacity” as “reinforcing social perceptions that Folks with Down syndrome and different disabilities are much less helpful.”
The Netherlands report additionally famous an “enhance in selective terminations of pregnancies.”
Wisconsin Lawyer Advocates for Restoring Abortion Legislation
The Wisconsin Supreme Court docket on Monday heard arguments over an 1849 regulation that banned abortion there for greater than a century earlier than Roe v. Wade annulled it in 1973.
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Democratic Lawyer Basic Josh Kaul challenged the regulation after Roe was overturned in 2022. He argued 1985 Wisconsin regulation permitting abortions overturned the 1849 regulation.
A Dane County Circuit Court docket decide dominated final yr that the 1849 regulation didn’t prohibit abortion. Joel Urmanski, district lawyer for Sheboygan County in Wisconsin, requested the excessive courtroom to overturn that ruling.
Heather Weininger, govt director of Wisconsin Proper to Life, criticized the courtroom in a press release, claiming that “nearly all of the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket was there to legislate from the bench.” The Wisconsin Supreme Court docket has had a liberal majority since 2023.
Kate Quiñones is a employees author for Catholic Information Company and a member of Faculty Repair. She has been printed by the Wall Road Journal, the Denver Catholic Register and CatholicVote, and graduated from Hillsdale Faculty. She lives in Colorado together with her husband.