Even pro-life advocates who have long called for overturning Roe v. Wade are unsure what comes next as a Supreme Court decision that could reverse the landmark 1973 decision is expected this month.
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Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Podcast: What Catholics actually think about abortion and Roe v. Wade
What Catholics in the pews think about abortion is not clear—and we don’t ever talk about it.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Armed man arrested for making death threats against Justice Kavanaugh
A man threatening to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the justice’s Maryland home June 8, carrying a gun, a knife and zip ties.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Long before RBG, Justice John Marshall Harlan was the Supreme Court’s ‘great dissenter’
Peter S. Canellos provides us with a fascinating biography of a Supreme Court judge who was the sole dissenter in both the Civil Rights Cases (1883) and in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), in which the court held that the Constitution established the separate-but-equal doctrine.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
An unlikely role model for a more human abortion debate
When it comes to abortion debates, we need fewer polemics and much more compassion, especially of the kind Venerable Nelson Baker put into action.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Thank God for the end of Roe v. Wade. And then get to work supporting pregnant women.
Roe v. Wade isn’t just evil—it is bad law, bad history, bad medicine and bad science. Still, much work remains to be done.
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Biden administration denounces protests against pro-life groups, including Catholic churches
Protests have also been held outside the homes of two Supreme Court Justices in the Washington area.
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Podcast: A pro-life Democrat’s hopes for a world after Roe v. Wade
This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria welcomes Kristen Day, the executive director of Democrats For Life of America and the author of Democrats For Life: Pro-Life Politics and the Silenced Majority.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
U.S. bishops respond to Supreme Court abortion opinion leak: We ‘stand ready to help all pregnant women’
“We hope and pray for a change in our laws and stand ready to help all pregnant women in need in each of our communities,” Archbishop William Lori said in a statement on Wednesday.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We have more common ground on abortion than you think. Don’t let a Supreme Court leak threaten it.
With a focus on unity—even in spite of substantial differences—the issue of abortion looks quite different than the picture painted by those who want to see our polity burned to the ground.