By Father Roger Landry, EWTN News, January 21, 2024
Father Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, is ecclesiastical assistant to Aid to the Church in Need USA. Father Landry, a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, has been appointed by the U.S. bishops a “National Eucharistic Preacher.”
COMMENTARY: The Catholic Church needs to pray as if lives depend on it — because they do.
The laws in the United States with regard to abortion are considerably better than before Dobbs v. Jackson was decided in June 2022.
Not only did the Supreme Court’s decision demolish the claim that abortion is a constitutionally protected right, but it also made possible state laws protecting our youngest brothers and sisters.
Since then, 14 states now have passed or revived laws banning most abortions, two states have banned abortions after six weeks, and six others have prohibitions in place that are presently not enforced because of legal challenges in state courts….
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