abortion

“How many lives could be saved if politicians from both parties encouraged government at all levels to give pregnant women the support they need to keep and raise their children?”

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The Texas Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, said the Supreme Court’s action marked the first time since Roe v. Wade that the nation’s high court “has allowed a pro-life law to remain while litigation proceeds in lower courts.”

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in its friend-of-the-court brief filed July 27, stressed that abortion is not a right created by the Constitution and called it “inherently different from other types of personal decisions to which this court has accorded constitutional protection.”

“The right to life is a fundamental — the most fundamental — human right, and Catholics do not oppose fundamental human rights,” the archbishop said in a July 22 statement.

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Objections from Cincinnati Right to Life and other pro-life groups were mounting ahead of the one-hour evening event on the Catholic campus because Biden, who is Catholic, supports keeping abortion legal.

Lawmakers in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz approved a bill July 20, 2021, decriminalizing abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, the second such decriminalization measure approved in Mexico in barely two weeks.