Confusion and canons at Villanova University law school conference

 Confusion and canons at Villanova University law school conference

The Canon Law question is whether the President or any legislator, indeed any judge, has the ability to reverse legalized abortion. The answer is no. Their personal opinion matters not. The opinion of the citizenry or the bishops also has no impact, nor can it. There is simply no way to grant the unborn in the first trimester a legal claim against his mother without savaging the entire idea of natural rights. 

Natural law theory, especially the relativism that comes from Rome, can have no voice in American law. The Establishment clause prohibits such seditious nonsense. End of story.

Aside from that, the Conference was fringe that should be ignored.The bishops who want Biden to not receive cite his disobedience, not his support of abortion per se. Obedience must be earned and they have not earned it, especially when the obedience they desire is voting Republican.