US bishops: Consensus by bromides
Either Archbishop Pierre or Cardinal O'Malley need to do something about their brother from Tyler. Sometimes, in hierarchical organizations, examples must be made.
Faithful Citizenship will always be a document about abortion voting. It should be dropped and the linkages between the Pro-Life Activities, certain Midwestern Bishops and the Republican Party explored. The nature of abortion law in the U.S. must be addressed. Unlike the rest of the world, abortion rights are constitutionalized, not legislated. There is no such thing as pro-life voting. The two George W. Bush appointees declined to ban all abortion when given the chance and the two Trump appointees will likely lean the same way. We will not know for sure until after June v. Gee is decided, later this term.
There can be no state-by-state solution without bringing back the state legislative power regime of Plessy v. Ferguson. Neither can the government, in response to the Congress granting legal status for the unborn, selectively investigate elective D&C procedures and ignore therapeutic ones. Congress will not, and probably cannot, allow investigating any early term abortions at all. The right to life in the Constitution is a protection against execution, not murder. One must have legal status to be protected from murder. Until this is all made clear, conservative bishops maintain a license to squeal.
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