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by bcadmin | Jul 29, 2022 | Abortion, Abortion law, Catholic Medical Association, Church in the US, Indiana, News, the pro-life movement | 0 |
Mike Fichter, president of Indiana Right to Life, stood before 1,200 pro-lifers packed in an atrium of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis and on two balconies rising above him July 26.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 5, 2022 | Catholic Medical Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, euthanasia, National Right to Life, News, Oregon, Physician-assisted suicide | 0 |
The National Right to Life Committee March 30 denounced Oregon’s decision to drop residency requirements that were part of its physician-assisted suicide law.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Abortion, Abortion law, Catholic Medical Association, Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, News, RU-486, United Kingdom | 0 |
A British medical regulator has reversed a ban on a Catholic doctor from offering “abortion pill reversal treatment” to women who wished to keep their babies.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 16, 2021 | Affordable Care Act, Becket, Biden Administration, Catholic Health Association, Catholic hospitals, Catholic Medical Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Religious Freedom, Transgender | 0 |
Several Catholic hospitals, a Catholic university and Mercy sisters who run health clinics filed a challenge to a federal mandate for performing gender transition procedures with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit Dec. 15.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 12, 2021 | Abortion, bioethics, Catholic Medical Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Fetal remains, News, the pro-life movement | 0 |
At 15 weeks’ gestation, a fetus responds to touch. The neurotransmitters and nerves needed to process and transmit pain signals have formed, and most of the spinal cord has hardened into bone.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Associated Press, bioethics, Catholic Medical Association, Church in Europe, embryonic stem cell research, Embryos, Faith and Science, News | 0 |
Scientists are using human stem cells to create a structure that mimics a pre-embryo and can serve as a research alternative to a real one. They say these “blastoids” provide an efficient, ethical way to study human development and pursue biomedical discoveries in fertility and contraception. The latest effort was […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 28, 2021 | Biden Administration, Catholic Church, Catholic Medical Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Religious exemptions, Religious Freedom, Transgender | 0 |
The Philadelphia-based Catholic Medical Association Aug. 26 joined in a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s mandate that doctors and hospitals perform gender-transition procedures on any patient despite any moral or medical objections of the doctor or health care facility.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 6, 2021 | Archdiocese of New York, Catholic Church, Catholic Health Association, Catholic Medical Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID restrictions, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccine, National Catholic Bioethics Center, News, Religious exemptions, Vaccinations | 0 |
As some Catholics are seeking a religious exemption to the coronavirus vaccine mandates that are becoming more common in workplaces and even some public venues, priests in the Archdiocese of New York have been advised not to get involved in that process.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2021 | bioethics, Catholic Church, Catholic Medical Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccine, National Catholic Bioethics Center, News, Vaccinations, Vaccines | 0 |
Two Catholic organizations issued statements in July urging against imposing a coronavirus vaccine mandate without conscience, religious or medical exemptions.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 6, 2020 | Catholic Medical Association, election, News, Prayer, U.S. & World News, uncertainty, Unsettled election | 0 |
The Catholic Medical Association Nov. 5 urged Catholics around the country to pray a novena or rosary “for clarity and peace” in the midst of the unsettled 2020 presidential election.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 20, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic Medical Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, quarantine, social distancing | 0 |
A blue-ribbon panel of Catholic doctors from some of the nation’s top research hospitals and universities said churches should be able to reopen “as safely as other essential services,” after being shut down for more than two months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | Archbishop Joseph Naumann, Archbishop Paul Coakley, bioethics, Bishop Kevin Rhoades, Catholic Church, Catholic Health Association, Catholic Medical Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Doctrine, Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, Coronavirus, COVID-19, National Catholic Bioethics Center, News, Nursing, US bishops, USCCB, USCCB committee on pro-life activities | 0 |
The coronavirus pandemic is creating fear over limited resources for treating patients, especially the most seriously ill, but “this is not a time to sideline our ethical and moral principles,” said the chairmen of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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