A Missouri House bill to abolish the death penalty finally received a committee hearing, and Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski attended on behalf of the Missouri bishops to offer testimony in support. House Bill 2153, sponsored by Rep. Jim Murphy, a Republican...
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley announced on Wednesday that he has introduced legislation that would ban Mifepristone, a drug commonly used for first-trimester abortion. The Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act would revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s...
The Missouri House passed legislation Thursday that would permanently bar doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to transgender minors, sending the bill to the Senate for approval. Lawmakers voted along party lines with 102 Republicans in...
On Tuesday, the Missouri House of Representatives Committee on Children and Families heard a trio of bills aiming to protect minors from accessing harmful pornographic content online. HB 1839, sponsored by Representative Sherri Gallick (R-Belton), HB 2921, sponsored...
The House on Thursday passed its first bill of the session–an MCC-supported bill aimed at protecting infants who survive a failed abortion attempt. HB 1667, sponsored by Rep. Brian Seitz (R-Branson) and Rep. Holly Jones (R-Eureka), would require a health care provider...
This week, the U.S. Department of State officially published three rules expanding the “Mexico City Policy,” which, since 1984, has restricted certain federal funds from going to foreign organizations that perform or promote abortion. The new rules impose additional...
This week, the ten-day trial over Missouri’s abortion regulations concluded in Kansas City. At issue are numerous state safety regulations that abortion providers say are now void after voters passed an abortion-rights state constitutional amendment in November 2024....
Catholic leaders are calling for calm, restraint, and respect for human dignity after federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents killed two citizens. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), officials have arrested more than 3,000 people...
Thousands of people are converging on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., today for “the largest annual human rights demonstration in the world.” The 2026 March for Life theme is “Life Is a Gift,” which emphasizes the “unshakeable conviction that life is very good and...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Thursday a new policy ending the use of fetal tissue from abortions in federally funded research: “Effective immediately, NIH funds will no longer be used to support research involving human fetal tissue from...