It is time for the pro-life movement in this country, and especially for the U.S. Catholic bishops, to recognize that their nearly 50-year effort to overturn Roe v. Wade was a deeply flawed political strategy.
Michael Sean Winters: No one wants a Supreme Court with its finger to the wind, but the current conservative majority seems to enjoy thumbing its nose at the American people.
The U.S. Supreme Court has not yet overruled Roe v. Wade, but that did not stop some Catholic bishops, priests and activists from reacting with hope to a leaked draft decision — while others condemned it.
On Jan. 21, the 49th annual March for Life will kick off at the precipice of a long-awaited milestone, as the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the ruling that legalized abortion across the U.S.
Theology en la Plaza: While "surrounding mothers with love" is certainly essential to addressing crisis pregnancies, there are national-level advocacy efforts that will impact the lives of women much more effectively.
This past year was busy for the nation's high court, particularly with issues of interest to Catholics regarding abortion, religious liberty, COVID-19 vaccine mandates and the death penalty.
Commentary: I am more in line with pro-choice energy because I am so sick of the pro-life movement's blindness to policies that might work, that might really impact the number of abortions. That's the goal, right?
Some who otherwise support the Texas Heartbeat Act's aim to curb legal abortions have qualms about its enforcement mechanism, which critics say risks creating an unseemly bounty system and disastrous legal precedents.
Distinctly Catholic: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who signed the anti-abortion bill into law in May, has spent most of his tenure and all of the summer showing that fetal heartbeats are the only heartbeats he cares about.
