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Ultimately, Roe has to end in the way that Alito envisions, i.e., a return to the states. The Supreme Court had and has no business dictating abortion policy for a country of 300 million. Its pretensions of having such power were anti-democratic, unconstitutional and ahistorical. It will be fascinating to see how the Church reacts to the post-Roe landscape. Sadly, in much of the country, Catholic priests and bishops have been reluctant to condemn abortion, and the result has been widespread ignorance of Catholic teaching on the issue, particularly among the young. I was discussing the issue with a young family member on the way to school this morning, and she told me that most of her Catholic school classmates were "pro choice" and some of them would be genuinely surprised to hear that the Catholic Church opposes abortion as no teacher has ever mentioned the issue and the kids get their opinions from TikTok.

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The horror of all this is the lack of support for women and children in poverty. In addition to medical issues abortions are often because of lack of resources by often single mothers. Any woman with resources will simply go to where abortions are legal. A woman without resources will often resort to dangerous procedures that can end her life. Pro-life to me means really supporting children like those at the border who are fleeing violence and starvation. Where are they in all of this. I don't see "Pro-Life" protestors with the same passion for needy children who are already in this world.

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God is the CREATOR, no human beings have right to kill an innocent baby in his/her mother's womb even the mother herself. She has no right to kill a baby in her womb. She needs to straighten up or get help. Abortion is a crime that called up the Heaven for vengeance. The USA will be burnt alive if you stupid ignorant Sadistic people keep on killing babies.

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We need to pray for the FATHERS also.

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Let's not all order diapers for pregnancy centers through Amazon, who is offering U.S. employees $4,000 to travel to different states for medical procedures, including abortion and transgender care. https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/amazon-will-offer-4000-per-year-to-us-employees-who-need-to-travel-to-different-states-for-medical-procedures-including-abortion/ar-AAWQ7hc

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Perhaps, maybe, a bishop or the Pope could comment and reaffirm the Catholic churches standing on abortion and comment on this. Nay, probably not.

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Will the comments today of "devout Catholic" Joe Biden finally spur the Gregory/Cupich/McElroy/Tobin cabal and their supporters to acknowledge--publicly!--that Joe Biden and others senior Democrat politicians are apostates? Seriously, how can any Catholic, much less our most senior prelates, maintain that these individuals are somehow still worthy to receive communion despite their enthusiastic embrace of abortion on demand? This is a horrific scandal and the silence of these prelates in the face of unambiguous statements by these politicians is an embarrassment. Sadly, I expect crickets not only from the cathedrals but, worst of all, from the Vatican. St. Joseph, Pray for Us!!

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"A friend suggested that everyone who works to end legal protection for abortion might also set up a recurring online donation to a crisis pregnancy center[.]"

This is a good idea. If your parish doesn't have a "baby bottle drive" for the same, urge your pastor to have them. It will help if you have all the information ready for him. And in my experience, the crisis pregnancy center will be more than happy to help.

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Deirdre McQuade was one of those people who didn’t live to see it; her funeral was today: https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/r-i-p-deirdre-mcquade-catholic-advocate-for-life/

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