Do Americans Prefer Abortion?

We need a critical post-Roe examination of conscience.

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Abortion rights supporters walk past the Washington Monument as they march from the Supreme Court to the White House after the court ruled in the Dobbs v Women’s Health Organization abortion case, in Washington, D.C., June 26, 2022.

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Do we prefer abortion? It’s something we must ask ourselves given the election results in places such as Michigan and California, where they have made some radical changes to their state constitutions. No parental consent or notification for minors in the Wolverine State. I can’t believe that people who voted for the proposition there supported all of its features. In Montana, voters chose not to protect infants born alive in a botched abortion. Do people really believe that’s okay? Have 49 years of legal abortion numbed us to violence and inhumanity?

We are living at a time with a lot of noise, a lot of pressure, and tremendous confusion. Over the summer, you saw that the confusion about life after Roe v. Wade had an impact even on hospitals. Of course, doctors must treat a woman who has had an ectopic pregnancy. No, miscarriage isn’t a crime. It’s not a sin – never mind against the law — to treat a pregnant mother’s cancer.

Kathryn Jean Lopez

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.

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