By Matthew Schmitz, Catholic Herald - US abortion law is based on a great lie. But the new Supreme Court Justice could help to strike it down... Since Roe v Wade was unjustly decided in 1973, American law has approved the killing of 60 million children. At present rates we kill 926,190 each year, 2,537 each day, 105 each hour. Because our law teaches contempt for life, these dead have gone largely unnamed, unburied and unmourned.