Biden pledge to codify Roe v Wade ‘disturbing’ and ‘tragic,’ bishops say

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NEW YORK — The U.S. bishops’ conference pro-life chairman has called President Joe Biden’s intent to codify Roe v. Wade “deeply disturbing and tragic,” in response to a statement made by the second-ever Catholic president on Friday.

The statement from the White House – signed by both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris – was made Friday for the 48th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the case, which made abortion legal.

“It is deeply disturbing and tragic that any President would praise and commit to codifying a Supreme Court ruling that denies unborn children their most basic human and civil right, the right to life under the euphemistic disguise of a health service,” Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas said in a statement.

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