Though the effects of decades of false jurisprudence and utter falsehood will continue to corrode, at least this faucet of toxin will have finally been shut off! PRAISE the LORD!!!
Women everywhere are safer, their dignity more intact, the responsibility of men more pressing than ever, and babies in one-third of the nation will be alive because of this ruling.
If only my Godfather had lived to witness this (though he is probably interceding from heaven).
CatholicVote underscored an important detail:
Not only was Roe overturned on the day we celebrate the Sacred Heart, but every other year it will fall on the Nativity of John the Baptist -- who recognized the humanity of Christ in the womb.
According to CatholicCulture's tribute to pro-life-determination, we also can celebrate full emancipation on Juneteenth and 24th:
The Dobbs decision offers opportunities to wrestle back lost cultural ground. June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Let’s also declare June “Unborn Baby Pride Month,” or #LifeMonth. Let’s celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation on June 24th and the emancipation of unborn babies from the sinister clutches of Roe v. Wade.
I am all in favor of moving the March for Life to June 24, in place of January, but they just announced that January 20, 2023 they will be marching for all the work that remains to be done, while also pressing forward state-level marches in battleground states.
The founder of March for Life was born the same date Roe was overturned, so that's a pretty amazing birthday gift, though she did not live to see it.
Crisis magazine puts forward a modest proposal:
Our proposal is a simple one: in every state, Catholic state legislators should consider bills that would make a public accounting of all funds spent on supporting abortion providers in 2021 and mandate that these funds be immediately redirected to other services for pregnant mothers, adoption, and mothers and children in need.
George Weigel, with his signature economy of words:
After Dobbs, it will be harder to argue that the abortion license decreed by Roe v. Wade was gestated in the womb of the Declaration of Independence and latent in the concept of liberty prevalent at the American Founding. Properly understood, the civil rights triumph of June 24, 2022 will help clear the ground on which the hard work of rebuilding a culture of life can continue — a culture that does not mistake liberty for license, which was a notion foreign to the Founders and Framers.
Msgr. Pope channels some inner MLK as he penned Still We March. He also made his first post-Roe post a stirring reminder of the reality at stake in this debate:
At both the physical and spiritual level the magnificence of life is really too wonderful too describe. But I found this description some years ago which summons reverence by its very ability to baffle the mind:
MIRACLE OF LIFE– Consider the miracle of the human body. Its chemistry is just as extraordinarily well tuned as is the physics of the cosmos. Our world on both sides of the divide that separates life from lifelessness is filled with wonder. Each human cell has a double helix library of three billion base pairs providing fifty thousand genes. These three billion base pairs and fifty thousand genes somehow engineer 100 trillion neural connections in the brain—-enough points of information to store all the data and information contained in a fifty-million-volume encyclopedia. And then after that, these fifty thousand genes set forth a million fibers in the optic nerves, retinae having ten million pixels per centimeter, some ten billion in all, ten thousand taste buds, ten million nerve endings for smell, cells that exude a chemical come-on to lure an embryo’s lengthening neurons from spinal cord to target cell, each one of the millions of target cells attracting the proper nerve from the particular needed function. And all this three-dimensional structure arises somehow from the linear, one-dimensional information contained along the DNA helix. Did all this happen by chance or do you see the hand of God?
Consider too the spiritual mystery of the human person as expressed in the 139th psalm:
For it was you who created my being, knit me together in my mother’s womb. I thank you for the wonder of my being…Already you knew my soul my body held no secret from you when I was being fashioned in secret….every one of my days was decreed before one of them came into being. To me, how mysterious your thoughts, the sum of them not to be numbered! (Psalm 139 varia)
No human being is an accident, no conception a surprise or inconvenience to God. Mysteriously he knew and loved us long before we were ever conceived, for he says, Before I ever formed you in the womb I knew you (Jer 1:4). And, as the psalm says above, God has always known everything we would ever do or be.
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