Many people seem to be talking about state-law ‘challenges’ to Roe v. Wade. You might remember how we talked last Independence Day about how this turning-point in our history was coming.
We acknowledge: Many people fear such a significant change in our national way of life. We have to sympathize with that fear. We commit ourselves to vindicating the rights that every expectant mother has. Those don’t include having someone kill the baby. But they do include: support, without judgment; the best medical care; a helping hand.
Maybe a lot of the pro-choice hysteria of the past couple days springs from fear. Fear of change and fear of the unknown. But we can hardly hope that the Supreme Court would ever turn Roe v. Wade completely on its head and make abortion illegal in all fifty states. Rather, it seems like we’re headed towards: red-state/blue-state regional variations in abortion law.
Which means, of course, that here in purple Virginia we will have the pro-life fight of a lifetime on our hands.
…Why are we pro-life? Do we have a ‘religious conviction’ that life begins at conception? Actually, we have airtight scientific evidence that it does.
Do we want to ‘impose our religion’ on others? Well, did the slavery abolitionists of two centuries ago intend to ‘impose their religion?’ Plenty of people said that they did, including US President and native Virginian John Tyler.
Does prohibiting abortion by law mean ‘going backwards?’ Hardly. It means keeping the unfilled promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Maybe some people call themselves ‘pro-life’ out of sexism or prudishness. If so, that doesn’t mean that innocent and defenseless unborn children should face death with no legal protection, just because some of their advocates have imperfect motives.
No one thinks that the slaves in the South should have stayed slaves because some northern abolitionists were hypocrites, or because Abraham Lincoln himself had confused–and not altogether humane–ideas about blacks.
Whatever happens in the statehouses and courts, we have a clear mission. Serenely to love every human being. We do that out of religious conviction. That’s our way of ‘imposing’ our religion—loving our neighbors selflessly, unconditionally, and generously.
We can and should hope that the turning-point for which we have prayed for two generations will come. And January 22nd won’t mean anymore what it has meant since 1973. And the Pro-Life Movement will step into a new phase.
In the meantime, our job is to pray and stay close to The Life, Jesus Christ.
Father Mark White Blog 
Amen, the path is open but the work needs doing. May compassion and strength be granted to us all.
I think what bothers me the most is many who say pro life mean anti abortion….. they don’t support that pro life means until natural death….I see a lot of non Catholics and or non Christians dismissing the catholic stand on abortion because of that….it’s horrible to read….but too many who say I’m catholic or I’m Christian and I’m pro life will also say that a person should be executed… pro life is supposed to be from cradle to grave…. I think if such things had been stressed enough over the last years and there weren’t so many (sadly) pro abortion Catholics and Christians all of this going on today…. would not even be happening….
We can’t stop now. It seems that we are getting close judging by awesome Alabama and a few other states who have heavy handed the pro abortionists propaganda and child sacrifice to ‘Moloch’ … God bless all and pour many graces upon the work … through the hands of Mary Mediatrix.