Faith-based health organizations defend at-risk AIDS initiative from Republicans
Children play at the Nyumbani Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya, on August 15. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Like all organizations controlled by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services opposes abortion in any form.
As the website of this 80-year-old humanitarian organization clearly states, CRS is “dedicated to preserving the sacredness and dignity of human life from conception to natural death.”
But CRS and dozens of other faith-based aid organizations, many of whom oppose abortion, now find themselves defending a US program that has dramatically reduced the worldwide spread of AIDS from attack by erstwhile allies, a smattering of Republicans who claim that under President Joe Biden the program is advancing abortion rights.
