Insights & Resources
Resources designed to help Catholic policymakers promote policies that ensure access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services.
A place for reproductive health care providers to share stories and reflections from the frontlines of abortion care.

US CATHOLIC VOTERS PLAYED A pivotal role in the 2020 election, helping lift Democrat Joe Biden to a narrow victory over President Donald Trump. In so doing, they sent a powerful message about support for abortion rights and access to reproductive healthcare among US Catholics today, as well as the limited role they believe US bishops should play in our electoral system.

Senior Catholic leaders in the United States and Canada, as well as anti- abortion groups, are raising ethical objections against promising COVID-19 vaccines manufactured using fetal cells derived from voluntary donations of post-abortion material.

As debates intensify in the public policy arena over the broader issues of religious liberty and reproductivefreedom, nowhere do the issues more personally collide than in Catholic healthcare facilities.

THE US ROMAN CATHOLIC Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Millions of dollars went to about 40 dioceses that have paid hundreds of millions in settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.

As debates intensify in the public policy arena over the broader issues of religious liberty and reproductivefreedom, nowhere do the issues more personally collide than in Catholic healthcare facilities.