Following Friday’s decision by the Supreme Court to overturn the 50-year-old decision Roe v. Wade, and determine that legislating the legality and limits of abortion is within the power of state legislatures, some pro-abortion activists have targeted the homes of the court’s justices.
Others have laid the blame, or part of it at least, at the door of the Catholic Church. Demonstrators paraded around St. Patrick’s cathedral in New York, a city where abortion remains legal on demand up to, and including, during birth. Some online groups called for a ‘night of rage’ against church buildings.
It is true that the Catholic Church remains, squarely and unfashionably, of the opinion that the voluntary taking of innocent human life is always a grave sin. This is not, however, an opinion shared by America’s most famous Catholic layman, President Joe Biden, who has demanded Congress act to enshrine abortion through all nine months of pregnancy as a right in federal law.
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