{"id":1078654,"date":"2021-12-02T22:59:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T03:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1078654"},"modified":"2021-12-02T22:59:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T03:59:16","slug":"u-s-bishops-chairman-urges-prayers-for-overthrow-of-roe-v-wade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-bishops-chairman-urges-prayers-for-overthrow-of-roe-v-wade\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Bishops\u2019 Chairman Urges Prayers for Overthrow of Roe v. Wade"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-bishops-chairman-urges-prayers-for-overthrow-of-roe-v-wade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1078654&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP19156737280021-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, chairman of the U.S. Bishops\u2019 Committee on Pro-Life Activities, has launched a prayer crusade for the reversal of the fateful 1973 <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the United States, abortion takes the lives of over 600,000 babies every year. <em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em> <em>Women\u2019s Health<\/em> could change that,\u201d Archbishop Lori said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccb.org\/news\/2021\/us-bishops-pro-life-chairman-supreme-courts-dobbs-case\">statement<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe pray that the Court will do the right thing and allow states to once again limit or prohibit abortion, and in doing so protect millions of unborn children and their mothers from this painful, life-destroying act,\u201d the archbishop added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe invite all people of good will to uphold the dignity of human life by joining us in prayer and fasting for this important case,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lori urged Catholics and other Christians to check out ecumenical prayers and other resources available at www.prayfordobbs.com.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is the case that could overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> \u2014 the Supreme Court decision which made abortion legal in all 50 states,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayfordobbs.com\/\">website<\/a> declares.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNine justices stand between life and death for millions of innocent children and their mothers,\u201d it asserts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing we can do to is to bend our knees in supplication to our Lord Jesus Christ, asking for the end to <em>Roe<\/em>, and to the brutal practice of abortion,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health<\/em>, on the Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-landmark-mississippi-abortion-case-11638354602\">suggest<\/a>&nbsp;a clear majority of the Court indicated openness to the possibility of revisiting <em>Roe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we think that the prior precedents are seriously wrong,\u201d said Justice Brett Kavanaugh, does it not indicate \u201cthat the right answer is actually a return to the position of neutrality?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the oral arguments, several conservative justices underscored the historical record of the Court discarding prior decisions that were egregiously wrong, including some of its most consequential cases.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, chairman of the U.S. Bishops\u2019 Committee on Pro-Life Activities, has launched a prayer crusade for the reversal of the fateful 1973 Roe v. 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