‘All life is worthy of dignity and respect.”
Inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the Sisters of Life and Cardinal Timothy Dolan prayed for the protection of all human life. It was the 49th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s grave Roe v. Wade decision, which ushered in a regime of “unfettered access to abortion,” as Cardinal Dolan noted. He talked about his own niece, who shares a birthday with Roe, who at a young age faced a serious cancer diagnosis. Her doctor talked to her about how he thought he could help her, but also that we belong to God, and it is for Him to ultimately decide when it’s time to go home to Him. She’s in her thirties now, married, with a daughter who was adopted as a baby. Dolan also talked about two police officers who were shot the night before in New York City — he visited the family of one who had already died and prayed at the bedside of one who would die later in the week. The man who shot them was in the same hospital, being treated by a team of doctors. Because it’s not the doctors’ call to decide who lives and who dies, who is worthy of care and who isn’t, each patient receives the care they need.
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