Tag: Abortion

Although theologians once debated when the soul enters the body, the Church has consistently taught from the earliest centuries that abortion is always a grave moral evil.

The law educates the public. Can there be a more important lesson than the awfulness of abortion?

New data estimates show the number of abortions in the US remained stable in 2025, totalling some 1.126 million, with apparent declines in out-of-state travel for abortions offset by increasing access to telehealth abortions.

Hospitals and hospital managers would be barred from blocking abortions under new guidelines proposed by NSW Health.  

The NSW Supreme Court recently deemed a law that sought to ban protests near places of worship as unconstitutional. But why are we still prohibited from praying outside abortion clinics, asks Monica Doumit.

The sole Libertarian Party member of the NSW Parliament will introduce a bill banning sex-selective abortion on 22 October. All are invited to a rally outside on Macquarie Street. 

John Ruddick’s bill to ban sex-selective abortion will be the first time that I can remember where the good guys will be introducing proactive legislation that will chip away at the god of unfettered abortion and it feels good, writes Monica Doumit.

Spain's socialist government is pushing for regional "blacklists" of doctors who object to performing abortions, sparking backlash from medical and Catholic leaders.

Victorian GP Dr Jereth Kok posted on Facebook: “2020 will be remembered as the year when the facemask replaced the tinfoil hat as a symbol of paranoid hysteria?” Consequently he could be banned from practicing medicine.

The tragic case of a Queensland Court authorising a 12-year-old girl to have an abortion was made even more tragic by the reality that those who were supposed to be acting in her best interests failed to do so.

Statistics released by the Department of Health in Ireland showed that 10,852 abortions were performed in Ireland in 2024—representing a 62.8 per cent increase over the 6,666 abortions performed in 2019.

Nearly one in three conceptions in England and Wales end in abortion, newest government figures have revealed. Statistics on annual conceptions released 9 July by the Office for National Statistics showed that in 2022, 29.69 per cent of all conceptions in England and Wales ended in abortion, up from 26.54 per cent a year earlier.