On February 25, the Senate voted on two commonsense pro-life bills. One was about ending abortion at the point where a preborn baby can feel pain, called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and the other would protect babies born after a failed abortion, known as the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Both failed to pass. 

Sadly, the result isn’t surprising, but it is deeply disappointing. What’s wrong with protecting babies born alive after an abortion or making sure that preborn babies are not tortured to death during the abortion process?

I remember the jolt that resonated through my mind and body at an Ash Wednesday service I attended many years ago. Our priest stuck his thumb in a bowl of ashes that he held in his hand. As he rubbed those ashes across my forehead in the shape of a cross, he looked me in the eye and said, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld President Trump’s Pro-Life Rule which defunded Planned Parenthood of $60 million dollars in Title X taxpayer funding.

The court’s opinion was authored by Judge Sandra Ikuta and was decided on a 7-4 vote along ideological lines. Two newly appointed judges that were nominated by President Trump both sided with the Administration. Judge Ikuta and the four other judges in the majority were also nominated by Republican presidents.

All four dissenting judges were nominated by former President Bill Clinton.