Mothers who have had abortions will not be prosecuted but, instead, in states such as Texas, considered victims in need of physical and mental healing and material help.Ĭardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, stressed that the “whole community needs to provide solid assistance to mothers, couples and the unborn, encouraging mothers in difficulty to see the pregnancy through and entrust the infant to reliable foster parents.” Life, he added, “is sacred in all its stages, and, as such, all stages of life should be protected under law.” These states have varying exceptions, but in all of them medical providers are liable to face criminal charges for performing abortions. Thirteen states have “trigger bans,” which immediately prohibited abortion and came into force following the decision. Jackson Women’s Health decision, abortion is now banned, soon-to-be banned or made difficult in about 60% of U.S. Threat of punishment alone is no solution.”įollowing the Dobbs v. The German cardinal, who is a theological adviser to Pope Francis, stressed that “to be in favor of protection of life includes the obligation to help as much we can pregnant women who are facing difficult problems to find a positive solution for the baby and for themselves.
Thus for us as Christians it is obligatory to engage ourselves in the protection of life.” “I would also like to add that, even more, the Gospel doesn’t recognize such a right. Supreme Court decided that the American Constitution doesn’t recognize a right to abortion,” he said. In comments to the Register, Cardinal Walter Kasper, president emeritus of the Dicastery for Christian Unity, also welcomed the decision. This victory shows that we should never withdraw from the public square, must continue to intervene regularly in public discussion, and persuade the decent majority of the validity of our claims.”
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In “giving thanks” for the decision, he urged the faithful to “recommit ourselves to the work of assisting mothers and fathers who have conceived a child to do what nature teaches them, namely, to protect and to bring to term the incomparable gift of new human life.”Ĭardinal Pell said the ruling gives a clear message: “We live in democracies which still retain the right to free speech we have a right to political activity. “Rights derive from nature, from objective reality, not from sentimentalism and self-interest, and their ideologies,” he explained. Wade federalized the issue.Ĭardinal Burke recalled that the battle to defend all human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death “is integral to the restoration of the foundations of life in society on the fundamental rights inherent in nature, taught by human reason, and confirmed by faith. The ruling means that it is now up to states to decide if they wish to restrict or outright ban abortion at any point during a pregnancy, as was the case before Roe v. Casey decision that reaffirmed it in 1992. Wade decision that made abortion a federal right, along with the subsequent Planned Parenthood v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision, made public on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, overturned the 1973 Roe v. “It is a just reward for nearly 50 years of wise and brave, prayerful and persistent, spiritual and political activity.”
“It is immensely encouraging to the forces for good, not just in the United States, but especially in the Anglophone world - and throughout the West,” the Australian cardinal said. Cardinal Raymond Burke, prefect emeritus of the Apostolic Signatura, adding it is a victory that’s the “fruit of the perseverance of citizens in fulfilling their duty to safeguard and foster human life, especially the innocent and defenseless human life of the unborn.”Ĭardinal George Pell, prefect emeritus of the Secretariat for the Economy, called the landmark decision “an important victory for life, human rights, and indeed the best traditions of our Western way of life.” “Thanks be to God, the fundamentally unjust Supreme Court decision in Roe v.
Wade, telling the Register the historic decision is “just reward” for persistent efforts to protect defenseless human life, and urging the faithful to continue to defend the unborn in the public square. VATICAN CITY - Several senior Vatican prelates have praised the June 24 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v.
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