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COMMENTARY: A robust teaching on the family provides the necessary tools for understanding why abortion is wrong and why it tears apart the social order.
Recent legal cases at both the state and federal levels make it clear that, much to the chagrin of politicians in an election year, abortion remains at the center of public debate almost two years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
On Feb. 16, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that couples may invoke the state’s wrongful-death law to sue storage facilities that accidentally lose their frozen embryos, though Gov. Kay Ivey subsequently signed legislationgranting immunity to clinics that cause the deaths of human embryos.
On March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over the “abortion pill,” a two-stage drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to end the life of the developing child and induce the mother to discharge her child from her uterus. More specifically, the judges are deliberating whether the FDA lacked due diligence while expanding access to the drug over the past eight years.
Without in any way diminishing the importance of these cases, I would dare suggest that they distract from the wider Catholic teaching on the family, and I fear such distractions are continually increasing.
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Recent legal cases at both the state and federal levels make it clear that, much to the chagrin of politicians in an election year, abortion remains at the center of public debate almost two years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
On Feb. 16, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that couples may invoke the state’s wrongful-death law to sue storage facilities that accidentally lose their frozen embryos, though Gov. Kay Ivey subsequently signed legislationgranting immunity to clinics that cause the deaths of human embryos.
On March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over the “abortion pill,” a two-stage drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to end the life of the developing child and induce the mother to discharge her child from her uterus. More specifically, the judges are deliberating whether the FDA lacked due diligence while expanding access to the drug over the past eight years.
Without in any way diminishing the importance of these cases, I would dare suggest that they distract from the wider Catholic teaching on the family, and I fear such distractions are continually increasing.
Continued below.
Abortion Assaults Life, Love, Marriage, Family and Society Itself
COMMENTARY: A robust teaching on the family provides the necessary tools for understanding why abortion is wrong and why it tears apart the social order.
