Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Trump’s Critical Remarks of Post Roe Legislation

“Consequently, laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law. … Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead, there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection.” ~Pope St. John Paul II, Evangelium vitae

In June 2022, the United States Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on demand in the country.

In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court justices pointed out the obvious, i.e., that a constitutional “right” to abortion was fabricated out of thin air by the 1973 justices. A “right” to abortion, they noted, was neither “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history or tradition,” nor was it recognized when the Due Process Clause was ratified in 1868.

With the demise of Roe last year, the fight for the right of the preborn has entered a new stage. The horror of Roe is that for fifty years it imposed an extreme abortion regime on the entire country. Under Roe, pro-life states were actively forbidden from protecting the right to life of the preborn prior to the point of viability, which is around 23 weeks gestation. …

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