Catholic Facts
This Church teaching states that human life is sacred and must be respected and protected from the moment of conception until death.
What is the Sancity of Life?
Court case that legalized abortion on demand in all 50 U.S. States.
What is Roe vs. Wade?
Number of total abortions in the U.S.A in 2024.
What is 1.14 million?
The heart starts beating in utero at this time.
When is 22 days of gestation? (6 weeks gestation)
Number of people that died by suicide in Idaho in 2022.
What is 444 people died in Idaho in 2022.
Actions or omissions that intentionally cause death to eliminate suffering are a rejection of God's gift of life.
What is the Catholic Church's teaching on Euthanasia?
Court case that stated that abortion laws need to go back to states, reversing Roe vs. Wade.
What is Dobbs vs. Jackson Women Health Organization?
Total number of abortions in the U.S. since 1973
What is 63 million abortions?
Life begins at this time.
When the sperm meets the egg? (Conception)
The people that are morally responsible to protect all human life.
Who is All people?
According to the Catholic Church, God is the ultimate Master of life, and all people have a moral responsibility to protect human life from conception to natural death.
This Pope chose to forgive his attempted assassin and actually petitioned for his release from prison.
Who is St. John Paull II?
Idaho also has a law that prohibits an adult from transporting a pregnant, unemancipated minor into Idaho for an abortion without the consent of a parent or guardian.
What is "Abortion Trafficking?"
Percentage of abortions done via telehealth in 2024.
What is 25% of all abortions in the U.S. in 2024?
The nervous system develop in a pre-born baby (in utero) at this age gestationally. A.K.A. The baby can feel pain.
What is the neural tubes formed by 3 weeks gestation and by 5 weeks gestation, the first synapses (nerve connections) form in the spinal cord, enabling early movements and signaling the start of fetal brain development and responds to stimuli?
As of late 2024 and early 2025, physician-assisted death, often called medical aid in dying (MAID), is legal in this number of states.
What is 11 U.S. states and the District of Columbia?
In 1968, Pope Paul VI issued this landmark encyclical letter, which reemphasized the Church’s constant teaching that it is always intrinsically wrong to use contraception to prevent new human beings from coming into existence.
What is Humanae Vitae (Latin, “Human Life”)?
Number of states that have banned abortions.
What is 12 states have banned abortion (Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia). (As of January 8, 2025)
Percent of total abortions performed in the U.S. to "save the life of the mother."
What is less than 1% of all abortions?
Additionally, the definition of "medically necessary" can vary widely. Some jurisdictions may consider abortions necessary to prevent serious health complications for the mother, while others may only consider them medically necessary in cases where the fetus has a lethal condition.
At this gestational age (weeks of pregnancy) the pre-born baby could survive outside the womb?
When is 22 weeks gestation?
Repeated, aggressive, and unwanted behavior among school-aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance and causes harm. This aggressive behavior can be physical (hitting, kicking), verbal (name-calling, threats), social/relational (spreading rumors, exclusion), or damage property.
What is Bullying?
This belief prohibits the direct and intentional killing of any innocent human being, encompassing opposition to abortion, euthanasia, and the death penalty, while also calling for a just society that protects the inherent dignity of every person.
What is the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaching that human life is sacred and must be protected from the moment of conception to natural death because it is a direct gift from God and every person is created in God's image.
Number of states that require some form of parental consent for a minor to obtain an abortion.
Bonus: Number of states with father rights to prevent an abortion.
What is 38 states?
What is Zero states with fathers having any rights to prevent an abortion.
Percentage of women who will have an abortion by the age of 45 in the U.S.
What is 24% of women in the United States will have an abortion by the age of 45. This translates to approximately 1 in 4 women.
The eyes, legs and arms, facial features and major organs are forming at this age in gestation.
What is 3 to 8 weeks gestation?
The 4 ways to engage in life issues.