Roe v. Wade

There are many prayers of thanksgiving but also prayers said for peace during a tense time for the country.

“Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court is good news for the protection and sacred dignity of human life. … Every person is created in the image and likeness of God, and God loves every single human life.”

After the U.S. Senate failed May 11 to advance a “radical” abortion bill, the chairmen of two U.S. bishops’ committees urged Congress “to stop pushing abortion as the solution to needs of women and young girls” and “embrace” public policy initiatives that protect “both mother and child.”

The draft document, now considered authentic, was well-written and a good legal argument, but the Supreme Court has suffered in this apparent effort to undermine its legitimacy, according to one law professor.

Known as the “Oklahoma Heartbeat Act,” the House bill bans abortions after fetal cardiac activity can be detected.

“What serves political interests may not serve the interests of women and children. The battle for hearts and minds remains the greater challenge, and that struggle will never be won in the political trenches alone.”

The Supreme Court said Dec. 10 that clinics can continue to challenge a Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy but in the meantime the law would remain in effect.

During the past 50 years, advances regarding the biological genesis of humans have disproven the basis on which the court, in Roe v. Wade, presumed a lack of justifiability of a ban on abortions — except to save the live of the mother — that was in place in the defendant’s home state of Texas.