In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, legal expert and pro-life advocate Mary Hallan FioRito writes that for the past five decades, even pro-abortion law scholars have criticized the foundation upon with Roe v. Wade stood. FioRito writes that “with almost
A truly pro-life celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to cooperative efforts to pass legislation protecting life, women's rights and motherhood, said an editorial in Vatican News and L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.
Those efforts should
Two leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops hailed the Supreme Court's June 24 decision to overturn the court's 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide and said it is time for "healing wounds and repairing social divisions" with those who take
On Friday, in a long-awaited decision on a law banning most abortions after 15 weeks in Mississippi, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it has overturned the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), signaling an
In a new analysis for Our Sunday Visitor, contributing editor Russell Shaw writes that “while the Supreme Court delivered a stunning victory for human life in rejecting the idea that the Constitution guarantees a right to abortion, the real work only begins
Following the Supreme Court’s leaked opinion of an abortion case that, if holds, would overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states once again to legislate abortion regulations, longtime pro-life policy advocate Richard Doerflinger writes that while there might be a tendency for
In a new column, Pauline Sister Nancy Usselmann explores the deep divide over abortion in the United States, asking: “How can the killing of an innocent human life ever be permissible? … Can we retrieve this country’s soul? Overturning Roe would put
In his latest political commentary regarding goings-on in the Supreme Court, contributing editor Russell Shaw claims that “Desperation pretty clearly is the explanation for the shocking leak of a purported Supreme Court decision striking down the court’s principal pro-abortion rulings. Most likely,
Following the bombshell leak of a draft of the majority opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, OSV publisher Scott Richert writes that it’s clear that somebody within the Supreme Court is hoping to sway the outcome of
Columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez comments on the recent leaked opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court that basically overthrows Roe v. Wade and returns the abortion debate to the states: “For those of us who will give thanks to God for the end