David Albert Jones, Author at Catholic Herald

David Albert Jones

‘Careless words cost lives’ – reflections on recent statements from the Pontifical Academy for Life

April 25, 2023

A number of news outlets have picked up the story that Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has appeared to lend his support the legal toleration of assisted suicide. The story is based on a speech he gave during the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. In a later clarification, the Archbishop stated that he “reaffirms his

Proposed laws on embryo experimentation and fertility treatment are rushing us headlong into a Brave New World

April 12, 2023

(The manager of BioArt Fertility Clinics lab prepares thawed blastocysts during an in-vitro fertilisation process in Johannesburg, on February 22, 2022. (Photo by LUCA SOLA / AFP) (Photo by LUCA SOLA/AFP via Getty Images) I was once at a conference on gene-editing and was urging the need to keep some legal prohibitions in place. In

Roe v Wade, abortion, and the natural law

August 12, 2022

The Supreme Court’s decision rests on how the US Constitution is interpreted

There is no human right to abortion

May 24, 2022

In 1973 in the Roe v Wade case, the Supreme Court legalised abortion throughout the United States. Now, almost fifty years later the same court is considering overturning that judgement and returning abortion law to the states to decide. Media reporting of this case, especially in Europe, has been quite misleading. Often journalists have simply repeated

Contraception and IVF have damaged our society. Humanae Vitae offers a better answer

July 25, 2018

Both practices offered a technical fix for fertility - with grave consequences

Mark this year’s Day for Life by defending the rights of the sick and disabled

July 23, 2015

If assisted suicide is legalised some patients would be regarded as having lives 'not worth living'

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