Most of the recent news has centered around the Supreme Court leak of a draft of the majority decision in the Dobbs case and public responses to that revelation. I will not spend much time on that subject here. I am sure that we are all aware of the vitriolic and hateful rhetoric by the pro-abortion faction and the manner in which the Justices are being threatened. However, those who embrace the culture of death hate foremost those of us who care about women in distress with an unplanned pregnancy, women desperate, confused, and worried.
They hate us because we want to help those women. I invite the reader to come up with a self-consistent set of beliefs about the rights of women that excludes providing help at the time of an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy. Those who believe that every woman who finds herself in such a situation should have an abortion, and should not be helped with other choices, are a strange set of personalities indeed.
In their delusional mental condition motivated by hate and lust for blood, they have assaulted pro-life advocates and carried out acts of vandalism and arson on pregnancy resource centers, stolen religious objects and desecrated churches. At the same time that pregnancy resource centers are preparing to reach out to women in need and provide even more help to more women, many of those organizations and many churches are improving security and hardening access to bad actors….not without good reason, since the hate-mongers are calling for a summer of violence against them.
With the reasonable expectation now that SCOTUS will invoke the 10th Amendment to the Constitution and rule that the individual states have the right to regulate abortion according to the will of the people through their elected officials in those states, the National Catholic Register, in the May 22, 2022 edition, presented an analysis by the Catholic News Agency of the situation at the present time in the various states. The article revealed which states have “trigger” laws that will restrict abortion in such a case. Some states have the right to an abortion enshrined in state law. Some states are more pro-life, and other states are rather mixed. It is an excellent source of information to use in researching these issues, but is obviously too much information to comment on here.
The new battleground over abortion is expected to be at the state level. However, a pro-abortion political party in Congress will continue to try to pass laws providing unrestricted access to abortion at any stage of pregnancy, with some even advocating that unwanted babies should be allowed to die of neglect after birth. Now more than ever, we must fight for the hearts and minds of the people.
NCR also carried an article with reactions in Central and South American countries to the leaked version of their hoped for ruling in Dobbs. Comments by leaders of pro-life movements in Mexico, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina inform us of how far-reaching the decisions of SCOTUS are, how the US acceptance of abortion in Roe v Wade influenced the acceptance of abortion in their countries and around the world. A new ruling by SCOTUS that the US Constitution does not provide a nation-wide right to an abortion, but that it delegates to the individual states in the 10th Amendment the responsibility to make laws regulating abortion, is hoped to have a ripple effect on the attitudes of people and the development of laws in many other countries. This was reiterated in the NCR edition on June 5, 2022 in which it is noted that national newspapers all across Europe carried the story as front page news. It is this realization by the powerful abortion industry, and by politicians supported by the huge wealth they control, that has pro-abortion leaders acting like a dangerous wounded animal fighting for its life.
Finally, for now, I offer a few messages for Catholics. You may wish to catch EWTN Pro-Life Weekly on Thursdays at 9:00 pm (central). You can also download meditations for a pro-life rosary at https://ewtn.com/proliferosary . Some people may be able to attend the EWTN Family Celebration in Phoenix on October 1, 2022 https://ewtn.com/familycelebration
Let us pray for the SCOTUS Justices and for the unborn and for those who embrace death that they may have their eyes opened to the sanctity of new life and the importance of preserving the dignity of every individual.