Does America Prefer Abortion?

If we don’t, pray for a declaration of independence from it.

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Pro-choice and pro-life demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., May 3, 2022

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Do we prefer abortion? That’s the question we should be asking right now as Americans.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recoils — it happened just again hours before I write — when asked about her position on abortion. If the reporter who asks her is a man, she tends to try to put him in his place by pointing out she is a mother and a grandmother. In this most recent incident she insisted that she is “a very Catholic person” and believes in “a woman’s right to choose.” First of all, her bishop has had something to say of late about that very Catholic kind of description. And, the Catechism of the Catholic Church is clear on the evil of abortion. So is Pope Francis. It’s like taking out a hitman on your child, he most memorably said.

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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