There are many prayers of thanksgiving but also prayers said for peace during a tense time for the country.
Outside high court, joy, defiance and insults after Roe is struck down
Bishop Kettler: Statement on U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision
“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.”
Bishops to Congress: Protect women and children, ‘stop pushing abortion’
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.”
Academics consider fallout, motivations from leak on Roe decision
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.
Oklahoma bishops praise state lawmaker’s abortion ban bill
Known as the “Oklahoma Heartbeat Act,” the House bill bans abortions after fetal cardiac activity can be detected.
Greg Erlandson: The struggle for hearts and minds will continue
“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.”
Court keeps Texas abortion law in place, allows challenge to continue
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.
Doctors: Advances since Roe confirm abortion ‘takes life of unborn child’
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.