The Court today is given an opportunity to right a wrong it imposed.
The Court today is given an opportunity to right a wrong it imposed.
These remarks were delivered at a rally in front of the Supreme Court on December 1, when oral arguments were heard for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health.
D o you know about the Sisters of Life? They are Catholic women religious — “nuns” — who lay down their lives to serve women and babies and children and families. They take the usual vows nuns take, but they also take a unique one: to protect and defend the sanctity of human life. They embrace women who are pregnant and feeling like all the pressures in their lives are insisting on abortion. They love them. They do not tell them not to have an abortion. Rather, they reflect back to them the beautiful gifts they are and the tremendous love they are capable of.
The Sisters of Life meet women and girls who are scared. These women and girls often feel like they have to have an abortion so as not to disappoint their families and just about everyone else in their lives. Meeting the Sisters frequently changes things for them, giving them room to breathe.
Roe v. Wade hurt these women who feel pressured to abort their unborn babies. It created a right out of nowhere to abort an unborn baby during all three trimesters of pregnancy. Roe v. Wade has immiserated women. It has set an expectation for abortion. Roe v. Wade has encouraged a culture where abortion is preferred. Abortion is not empowerment. Abortion is not good. Abortion severs the most intimate relationship there is — between a mother and a child. Abortion is violence. Roe itself is not just bad law. Roe is not just bad science. Roe is cruel to women and children and men and all of culture. It is good for men to be good to women. It is good for women to be able to rely on men. We have different gifts and complement one another. But the regime of Roe v. Wade that was recklessly imposed by this Court on the women and men of the United States a near half century ago created a culture that seems to prefer abortion, the most intimate violence there is.
The Court today is given an opportunity to right a wrong it imposed. The Court today is given the opportunity to reclaim some of its credibility. The Court today has a unique and historic opportunity to unite this country around vulnerable human life, when it gravely and unconstitutionally divided it nearly a half century ago.
This case today, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, is about human rights. This case today is about the dignity of women. This case today is about saving lives. This case today is about declaring that women deserve better than the misery and brutality of abortion. It is only euphemisms that keep us from realizing the grave evil that is Roe v. Wade. We pray today that the Court comes to its senses and does the right thing and puts an end to Roe v. Wade, which is the real war on women — moms — and their children and families.
And know that we stand today as a movement who stands with the Sisters of Life, as a pro-love movement, with over 2,700 women’s care centers and so much more who embrace women for life.