By Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews, November 3, 2021
Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSNews.com.
The activities of the Biden administration this past Friday featured two remarkable and profoundly contradictory events.
In Rome, President Joe Biden met with Pope Francis. In Washington, his Justice Department filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing there is a “right” to kill an unborn baby with a beating heart.
What transpired in Washington that day was in reaction to what happened in Texas this spring.
On May 19, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 8, the “Texas Heartbeat Act.” This law declared that “a physician may not knowingly perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman if the physician detected a fetal heartbeat for the unborn child … or failed to perform a test to detect a fetal heartbeat.” …