Supreme Court allows full access to abortion pill

by Tyler Arnold Catholic News Agency

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An abortion-inducing drug used to kill preborn children up to 10 weeks’ gestation will stay on the market as a legal battle over the pill continues following a decision Friday, April 21, 2023, by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The court’s 7-2 ruling blocks a lower court order that would have taken the drug mifepristone off the market as the court considers a lawsuit over whether the drug was validly approved. Four conservative justices joined the court’s three liberal justices in the ruling. Justice Clarence Thomas stand by FDA’s (Food and Drug Administration) evidence-based approval of mifepristone, and my administration will continue to defend FDA’s independent, expert authority to review, approve, and regulate a wide range of prescription drugs,” Biden said in a statement.

The lawsuit was filed by the pro-life Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, which is being represented by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) in court.

ADF Senior Counsel Erik Baptist

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by Bishop Chad W. Zielinski

Corpus Christi procession

June 15, 1995, in Monterrey, Mexico

As a seminarian in the summer of 1995, I took part in a Spanish language immersion course in Monterrey, Mexico. While there, two other seminarians and I were assigned to work with Fr. Jose in a parish in the Archdiocese of Monterrey when we were not attending class. This parish assignment provided numerous pastoral opportunities to be immersed in the Mexican Catholic culture. Fr. Jose briefed us about the upcoming major celebration for “Jueves de Corpus Christi” (Corpus Christi Thursday) that we, as seminarians, would be involved