Archbishop Joseph Naumann (photo: CNA file photo / EWTN)
‘Our faith helps us understand the dignity of every human life created in the divine image as taught in the Hebrew scriptures, but reason alone is sufficient to know that it is wrong to destroy an innocent human life,’ the Kansas City shepherd explained in a recent op-ed.
By Jonah McKeown, CNA,
Responding to claims that Kansas Catholics are seeking to impose their religion on their neighbors by voting to exclude a right to abortion from the state’s constitution, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, says “reason alone is sufficient to know that it is wrong to destroy an innocent human life.”
Kansas is set to become the first state to place abortion policy on the ballot after the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide in 1973. Currently, Kansas restricts abortion after 22 weeks, but Kansas state lawmakers are generally prohibited from passing any type of new abortion restriction because of a 2019 state Supreme Court ruling that found that the state’s constitution protects a woman’s “right” to abortion. …
Andrea Mantegna, Crucifixion, 1457-1460. This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.