By Anne Hendershott & Daniel R. Kempton, Crisis Magazine, June 28, 2022
Dr. Anne Hendershott is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Dr. Daniel Kempton is Vice President of Academic Affairs at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
We have opposed Roe since its proclamation in 1973. Now that Roe has been overturned, pro-life Catholics need to move quickly from celebration to reconciliation and a genuine attempt at collaboration with those who truly want to help women in crisis pregnancies. We believe Roe was in error not just because it imagined an unwritten constitutional right but, more importantly, because it took away a written constitutional right—the right to life for an entire segment of the population. Such actions have previously been found unconstitutional for other groups within the American population. …