NOVENA FOR THE LEGAL
                         PROTECTION OF HUMAN LIFE:

 

The U.S. Bishops urge our participation each Friday in a nationwide Novena for the Legal Protection of Human Life, August 3 – September 28. Join at www.usccb.org/pray!

PRAY

May a change in the U.S. Supreme Court move our nation closer to the day when every human being is protected in law and welcomed in life.

 Our Father … Hail Mary … Glory Be

LEARN

Roe’s extreme abortion license is not widely supported. 

Abortion advocates claim that Roe enjoys broad public support and some recent polls seem to provide evidence for this claim. But most polls don’t explain Roe’s extreme abortion license and some misrepresent it. But the poll wrongly describes Roe as establishing “a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, at least in the https://www.setonchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/7226.081918.pdffirst three months of pregnancy.” The fact is, Roe made abortion legal through all 9 months of pregnancy and for virtually any reason. The vast majority of Americans opposes the policy of nearly unlimited abortion dictated by Roe, and most believe abortion should not be legal for the reasons it is most often performed. A June 2018 Gallup poll shows that 72% of Americans said abortion should be illegal in the second trimester and 87% said abortion should be illegal in the last trimester. A 2018 Marist poll shows that 51% of women said abortion should never be permitted 9% or permitted only in cases of rape, incest, and to save the woman’s life (42%). So why do polls show a majority of Americans favoring Roe v. Wade? Because they don’t really know what Roe did?