What Will the US Bishops’ Post-Roe Pro-Life Advocacy Look Like?

[Michie]

ANALYSIS: Even before the midterm’s disappointing results, the U.S. bishops have been signaling the approach they’ll likely be emphasizing in post-Roe America.


If discussing their post-Roe strategy for supporting women and children hadn’t already been on the U.S. bishops’ agenda for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ general assembly this coming week, you can bet it would’ve been immediately added following the brutal results of pro-life efforts to limit access to abortion in this Tuesday’s midterm elections.

In all five states where a proposal related to abortion access was on the ballot, the pro-life position was defeated. This was true in progressive strongholds like California and Vermont, as well as swing-state Michigan, but also in reliably “conservative” Kentucky and Montana. Factoring in the defeat of the “Value Them Both” initiative in Kansas this past August, efforts to protect life by limiting abortion access have been rejected by voters every time they’ve been on the ballot in post-Roe America.

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What Will the US Bishops’ Post-Roe Pro-Life Advocacy Look Like?

 

[tz620q]

ANALYSIS: Even before the midterm’s disappointing results, the U.S. bishops have been signaling the approach they’ll likely be emphasizing in post-Roe America.


If discussing their post-Roe strategy for supporting women and children hadn’t already been on the U.S. bishops’ agenda for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ general assembly this coming week, you can bet it would’ve been immediately added following the brutal results of pro-life efforts to limit access to abortion in this Tuesday’s midterm elections.

In all five states where a proposal related to abortion access was on the ballot, the pro-life position was defeated. This was true in progressive strongholds like California and Vermont, as well as swing-state Michigan, but also in reliably “conservative” Kentucky and Montana. Factoring in the defeat of the “Value Them Both” initiative in Kansas this past August, efforts to protect life by limiting abortion access have been rejected by voters every time they’ve been on the ballot in post-Roe America.

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What Will the US Bishops’ Post-Roe Pro-Life Advocacy Look Like?

It will be hard moving forward, because we are still swimming against the stream. That stream has several sources.

The first is that the main stream media is nearly universally liberal and will show the pro-abortion industry as the victim and the pro life movement as the radical revolutionaries.

The second is that Planned Parenthood and other large abortion organizations will funnel money into mobilizing volunteers to door knock and ads to paint this same picture.

Finally, most of the generation of women that are in their child-bearing years right now, do not know anything other than a Roe v Wade status quo. Their memories don't go back far enough to remember the way abortion was sold to the American public as safe and rare in the 1970's.

The pro-life movement has won a battle in a long war. In many ways we are the guerilla force fighting an established military presence. I am reminded of a quote from Machiavelli that paraphrased said, "Anyone that proposes change has lukewarm friends in those who might benefit under the new system and diehard enemies in all those who benefited under the old system."

 

[pdudgeon]

I think it will be hard to find, and harder to hear.
May God forgive them.