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Will your state vote on abortion in 2026?

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:30:00 +0000

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Jan 22, 2026 / 18:30 pm (CNA).

The abortion issue will likely be on the ballot in several states this November.

EWTN News took a look at which states have abortion-related measures in the works or on the ballot.

Four states might vote to create a right to abortion this November. Only one state has a measure to protect life.

Virginian lawmakers add abortion to the ballot

This November, Virginians will consider an amendment to enshrine a fundamental right to abortion in the state constitution. The amendment, if passed, could jeopardize already-existing laws protecting unborn children as well as Virginia’s parental notification law.

The proposed abortion amendment would create a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom, including the ability to make and carry out decisions relating to one’s own prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, abortion care, miscarriage management, and fertility care.”

Virginia lawmakers approved the amendment for a second time earlier this month, guaranteeing that it will be on the ballot. Virginia Catholic bishops promptly condemned the amendment, saying they “will fight” against its passage.

Virginia protects life after 28 weeks of pregnancy, meaning that abortion is legal until the end of the second trimester and after in cases of serious risk to the woman’s health or life.

Nevada looks to confirm abortion amendment

Nevada is close to approving an abortion amendment that would recognize a right to abortion.

The amendment would establish a “fundamental right” to an abortion, “without interference by state or local governments” up to viability, and up to birth for the sake of the health or life of the pregnant mother.

In Nevada, the state constitution can be amended only after two affirmative public votes in consecutive even-year elections. About 64% of Nevadans voted in favor of the amendment in 2024, so a 2026 passage would enshrine the amendment.

Abortion since the 1990s has been legal until the 24th week of pregnancy in Nevada. In addition to reinforcing pro-abortion laws, the new amendment could block other state laws including the parental notification requirement for minors seeking abortions.

Idaho gathers signatures for abortion ballot measure

In Idaho, a measure to create a right to abortion may appear on the November ballot.

Campaigners are gathering signatures for the measure to legalize abortion until viability, when the baby can survive outside of the womb.

The measure guarantees “a right to make and carry out reproductive decisions, including a right to abortion up to fetus viability.”

Idaho law protects unborn children at all stages of pregnancy, with exceptions if the mother’s life is at risk.

Oregon measure could reinforce pro-abortion laws

A measure to affirm a right to abortion in Oregon may be on the November ballot.

The measure states that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged … on account of sex.”

If passed, it would also affirm a right to contraception, in vitro fertilization, medical “gender transition,” and same-sex marriage. The measure would repeal a vestigial code in the constitution that defines marriage as between one man and one woman.

Oregon does not protect life at any stage of pregnancy, and the state funds abortion.

Potential ballot measure could repeal Missouri abortion amendment

In November, Missourians will have the opportunity to repeal a 2024 amendment that created a right to abortion in the state constitution.

If passed, the measure would repeal the state’s constitutional right to abortion and allow for laws to regulate abortion. It would also codify parental consent for minors seeking abortion and prohibit gender transition procedures for minors.

The amendment would not protect unborn children younger than 12 weeks in cases of rape or incest.

Abortion laws have been in flux in Missouri as the 2024 amendment was enforced amid legal challenges.

Blocked from the ballot: Montana’s push for personhood

A Montana measure defining unborn children as persons is not on the ballot this year, despite efforts to pass it.

Despite Montana voters’ move to approve a right to abortion in 2024, lawmakers came close to approving the subsequent pro-life measure, which would have stipulated that the word “person” applies “to all members of mankind at any stage of development, beginning at the stage of fertilization or conception, regardless of age, health, level of functioning, or condition of dependency.”

The amendment would have required that “no cause of action may arise as a consequence of harm caused to an unborn baby by an unintentional act of its mother.”

The measure narrowly failed to pass in both the Montana House of Representatives and the state Senate in early 2025, receiving just less than the two-thirds majority needed for a measure to be added to the Montana ballot.

Pope Leo XIV receives lambs on feast of St. Agnes

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Pope Leo XIV meets a pair of lambs blessed for the feast of the Roman virgin and martyr St. Agnes in the Urban VIII Chapel in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on Jan. 21, 2026. | Credit: Vatican Media

Jan 21, 2026 / 10:30 am (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday received a pair of lambs to be blessed for the feast day of the Roman virgin and martyr St. Agnes — the first time a pope has welcomed lambs at the Vatican, part of a centuries-old tradition, since 2017.

The presentation took place in the 17th-century Urban VIII Chapel in the Apostolic Palace, where the lambs’ bleats punctuated the brief ceremony Jan. 21. The wool of the blessed lambs will be used to make pallia — narrow white vestments worn by metropolitan archbishops.

It was a tradition for the pope to bless the lambs every year on the feast of St. Agnes until Pope Francis discontinued the practice after 2017.

St. Agnes, who was killed in Rome in A.D. 304 at the age of 12 or 13 for being a Christian, is associated with the lamb as a symbol of her purity and because her name means “lamb” in Latin.

The lambs — carried in baskets dressed in white with red roses for St. Agnes’ virginity and martyrdom — were later blessed in the Mausoleum of Constantina, an ancient church close to the Minor Basilica of St. Agnes Outside the Walls, which is temporarily closed.

The Benedictine nuns of the Basilica of St. Cecilia will take over care of the lambs, shearing them during Holy Week, then weaving their wool into pallia, which the pope will bestow on new metropolitan archbishops on June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.

The pallium is a narrow, circular band of white wool with pendants hanging down the front and the back. It is adorned with six small black crosses and three pins (called spinulae), which resemble both thorns and the nails used to crucify Jesus.

It is bestowed on the Latin-rite patriarch of Jerusalem and metropolitan archbishops — the diocesan archbishops of the primary city of an ecclesiastical province or region — as a symbol of communion, authority, and unity with the pope and his pastoral mission to be a shepherd for the people of God. The pope also wears the pallium over his chasuble when he is celebrating Mass.

Before the vestments are bestowed on the metropolitan archbishops, they are placed for a time in a spot near the tomb of St. Peter, under the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, to reinforce the bishop’s connection to Peter through apostolic succession.

Erotic images of seniors show sex and intimacy in new light

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 03:24:57 +0000

What does intimacy look like for seniors? There's no end to sex scenes and other steamy content featuring the young and unwrinkled, but past a certain age, popular culture largely draws a blank — or treats sex as a punchline.

Trump accuser Summer Zervos subpoenas 'Apprentice' recordings

Wed, 02 May 2018 21:43:35 +0000

The subpoenas request any recordings in which the President speaks in a "sexual or inappropriate manner" about women.

Judge to hear arguments about delaying Stormy Daniels case

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:39:56 +0000

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- President Donald Trump's lawyer is asking a federal judge to delay court proceedings in porn star Stormy Daniels' bid to dissolve the $130,000 confidentiality agreement that prevents her from talking about her alleged affair with Trump....

USA Gymnastics settles sex abuse lawsuit

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:36:53 +0000

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- USA Gymnastics has reached a confidential settlement in a Georgia lawsuit that spurred a newspaper investigation into the organization's practices for reporting child abuse....

Take A Stand For Purity - Friday, February 3, 2017

Fri, 03 Feb 2017 06:00:00 +0000

Father speaks to us today about sexual impurity in all of it's forms and calls us to purity in all walks of life.

Alabama Supreme Court Should Say No to Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Groups Say

Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:52:00 +0000

Contact: Tom Ford, 334-220-2319 MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 28, 2015 /Christian Newswire/ -- Sanctity of Marriage Alabama, a grassroots organization based in Montgomery urged the Alabama Supreme Court Tuesday to uphold their order from 3 March 2015 that halted same-sex marriage in Alabama. On 6 July 2015, Liberty Counsel, Alabama Policy Institute, and Alabama Citizens Action Program submitted a brief to the Supreme Court of Alabama explaining how Obergefell assaults the rule of law, democracy, Source: Sanctity of Marriage Alabama

3-Dec-13 - Vatican Note on Pope's Comments on Sexual Abuse

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:45:49 +0000

Fr. Rosica Responds to Enquiries on Holy Father's Comments to Dutch Bishops VATICAN CITY, December 03, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Vatican spokesman Fr. Thomas Rosica has written th...

Chicago Archdiocese to pay $12.6 million to 16 sex abuse survivors

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:16:59 +0000

Planned Parenthood youth website promotes pornography to teenagers

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:29:13 +0000

Editor's Note: This article may contain quotes offensive to some readersCNA STAFF, Feb 27, 2008 / 06:14 am (CNA).- A Planned Parenthood website for teenagers is promoting pornography to young people, Cybercast News Service reports.A 2007 article on the Planned Parenthood-sponsored Teenwire.com website advises pornography use as a “lower-risk form of outercourse.” "Many couples can read or watch

Where Have All the True Men Gone?

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:34:06 +0000

The "Other" Vocations Crisisby Kenneth HendersonWhat does it mean to be a man? We live in a time when the meaning of what it means to be a True Man has all but been lost. The vast majority of men are searching for meaning in their lives but don’t know where to find it. Many seek it in success, money, possessions and sex. Sadly, no man can ever find himself or the meaning of his life in these

Social Networking Sites are Porn Directories According to a ChristiaNet.com Study - Christian Newswire

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:22:38 +0000

Social Networking Sites are Porn Directories According to a ChristiaNet.com Study - Christian NewswireMEDIA ADVISORY, July 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- ChristiaNet.com, the world's largest Christian portal with twelve million monthly page loads, recently talked with a parent who surfed through several pages of one of the largest social networking sites. "Thinking these sites were kid safe websites,

The Great Mystery of Marriage: A "Foretaste of Heaven" or Satan's Battleground?

Wed, 16 May 2007 16:36:14 +0000

Possibly one of the most beautiful gifts that God has given to humanity is the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. Sadly, it is also the most attacked and profaned by Satan. Many people have very little understanding of just how important and holy the gift of marriage is. This can explain why many do not see the importance of saving the gift of sexuality for after they are married, why so many marriages

The Power of Kindness and Humility

Wed, 09 May 2007 21:17:19 +0000

Christ teaches us that we are to respond to any attack or wrong done to us with kindness. Pagans exchange an attack with a counter-attack. Christians know by humility that we are all capable of horrendeous wrongs and that we must appeal to the grace of God to bring a kind act to our brothers and sisters. It is easy to love your friends...but it is not so easy to love your enemies. But Jesus told

Lust is a root from which many weeds spread

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:44:00 +0000

From Spiritdaily.comApril 26, 2007Is there something stubborn in your life that you can't rid? Are you mysteriously plagued? Are you "blocked" on the way to sanctity?The answer may be in lust -- not just sexual lust, but lust in many "mysterious" manifestations.While we think of it sexually, lust means overly wanting anything. It means concentrating on the worldly. It means letting the self and

"Podcasting for Purity" - What is Truth?

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:17:07 +0000

Living as a True Knight means living as a True Man of God. One of the most important, if not the most important principles that we must do to live lives of Heroic Honor, Virtue and Integrity in an Impure World is to live a life of Truth. But what is Truth?Visit "Podcasting for Purity" to listen to this weeks episode!

PureHeart Podcast debuts!

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:26:12 +0000

Cyndi Kane of TwoEdgeTalk.com and Kenneth Henderson of TrueKnights.org discuss how we can live God's will and Proclaim the Splendor of God's Truth for Sexuality and expose the Lies of Satan!Visit PureHeart Podcast

"Podcasting for Purity" is back!

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:35:44 +0000

I have resumed "Podcasting for Purity."Check out the latest episode:

A Call for Warriors of Prayer!

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:58:15 +0000

"I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men: ...that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, Who wills that all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth."--1 Timothy 2:1-4 This is a a call for intercessors and

Pornographic Exploitation is "Free Speech?"

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:45:18 +0000

A news story just broke today reporting that a Federal Judge had just struck down an Internet Pornography Law. (Read the story here on Reuters and Associated Press). The 1998 law was designed to block children from viewing Internet pornography. The Judge stated that the violates the U.S. Constitution's free speech protections. The challenge was brought up by the American Civil Liberties Union

Pornography Addiction: How to Win the War against Satan's Attack on the Family (Part I)

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:11:40 +0000

from CatholicDaily.orgwritten by Kenneth Henderson, TrueKnights.orgFriday, March 23, 2007One of the prime objectives of the True Knights apostolate is to help men break free of the slavery of pornography addiction. Addiction to pornography and lust are destroying men and their families in greater numbers than alcohol or drug addiction. In fact, it is physically more addictive than cocaine and

Pornography Addiction: How to Win the War against Satan's Attack on the Family (Part II)

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:09:11 +0000

from CatholicDaily.orgwritten by Kenneth Henderson, TrueKnights.orgSaturday, March 24, 2007How did we stray so far, so fast? Why is pornography allowed to intrude into so many marriages? The main reason I see is we have been duped by society and the Great Deceiver. We have been lied to and told that we need this "toxic waste" in our lives or we are not normal. I'd liken it to being lost and

Very Important: Interview with Bishop Robert Finn on "Pornography's Death Grip!"

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:06:30 +0000

I was very pleased to read the Zenit.org interview with Bishop Robert Finn as a followup to his pastoral letter this morning. He had some very important and wise words to say about the problem of the continued "pornization" of our culture. In his first response the Bishop had these words to say:"Pornography is a most pernicious symptom of this decline in the awareness of human dignity. Because of

Ken Henderson, Founder of True Knights on "Kresta in the Afternoon" on Ave Maria Radio March 21st at 4:30PM EST

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:09:08 +0000

I will be Al Kresta's guest this afternoon (March 21st, 2007) at 4:30pm EST on his show "Kresta in the Afternoon". We will be talking about the ways in which God has most changed my life for a book that he is putting together from guests interviews! Wow...I could talk about this for days, it will be a challenge to keep it down to only 30mins...Heh!ALL GLORY GOES TO GOD!Please pray for me and be

What is Truth?

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:02:08 +0000

I want to welcome you to the "NEW" True Knights Blog. I hope you like the new look and I intend to make frequent use of this new blog.A lot has been happening here at True Knights in the past few weeks and I sense that the battle is about to intensify. What battle you may be asking? The battle for the human soul. The battle that every man and woman faces everyday. Now you may be thinking that