Zika virus
The ‘Splainer: Did Pope Francis revise church teaching on birth control?
By Kimberly Winston — February 18, 2016
(RNS) The Catholic Church recognizes that there are times in married life when having children may not be the best thing for the family due to financial strain, illness, or other difficulties.
Brazil’s abortion rights debate fails to convince some mothers of microcephaly babies
By Janet Tappin Coelho — February 11, 2016
RIO DE JANEIRO (RNS) Erika Roque believes God wanted her to have a child with microcephaly. But some reproductive-rights advocates want Brazilian women to have the right to abort.
Could the Zika virus move Catholics to reconsider birth control? (COMMENTARY)
By Travis Knoll — February 11, 2016
(RNS) The church might be more flexible on the issue of contraception if it sees it less as a cultural poison pill leading down the slope to abortion and more as a viable public health alternative.
Honduran cardinal warns against aborting Zika fetuses
By David Gibson — February 4, 2016
(RNS) The remarks by Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga are a sign that Catholic leaders in Latin America are worried that fetal abnormalities caused by the virus will be used as leverage to ease the region's generally strict abortion laws.
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