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Health care professionals at the Colorado-based, pro-life Bella Health and Wellness health care clinic. / Bella Health and WellnessDenver, Colo., Apr 17, 2023 / 13:02 pm (CNA).A federal judge granted a pro-life health care clinic a temporary exemption from Colorado's first-in-the-nation ban on the abortion pill reversal regimen after the clinic filed a lawsuit soon after the measure took effect.U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Domenico said in his injunction Sunday that the new law, which was part of a three-bill package expanding abortion in the state that was signed by Gov. Jared Polis on Fr...

Pope Francis meets participants in the plenary assembly of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches at the Vatican's Clementine Hall, Feb. 18, 2022 / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Apr 17, 2023 / 11:55 am (CNA).On Monday Pope Francis introduced a limit of 80 years of age for retired bishops and patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches to take part in decisional voting.In the motu proprio Iam Pridem, issued April 17, the pope modified four articles in the Code of Canons for the Eastern Churches, which regularly meet in synods of bishops to make decisions and elect patriarchs.The changes exclud...

Historic Tower at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. / ShutterstockWashington D.C., Apr 17, 2023 / 15:55 pm (CNA).Lawmakers are demanding answers from the Biden administration after a military hospital ended a contract with the Franciscan friars who have provided Catholic pastoral services there for nearly two decades. The Holy Name College Friary in Silver Spring, Maryland, received a cease-and-desist order April 4, during Holy Week, that ordered them to halt all services it provides at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in nearby Bethesda, ...

Null / ShutterstockSt. Louis, Mo., Apr 17, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA).A bill under consideration in Washington state would allow licensed youth shelters to withhold information from parents about whether a child in their care is undergoing a gender transition, allowing the shelters to instead contact the state. The bill, titled "Supporting youth and young adults seeking protected health care services," introduced by six Democrats, passed the state House last Wednesday. The bill would allow licensed overnight youth shelters housing a minor to inform only the state's Departme...

Null / UnsplashWashington D.C., Apr 18, 2023 / 08:50 am (CNA).Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday vetoed a "born-alive" bill protecting babies who survive botched abortions. This comes the week after Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a similar bill mandating doctors' care for abortion survivors.Both Kansas and Arizona have majority Republican legislatures but Democratic governors.In Kansas, where abortion is legal until the 22nd week of pregnancy, the governor called the born-alive bill "misleading" and "unnecessary.""Federal law already protects newborns, and th...