{"id":258789,"date":"2021-12-13T16:45:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T22:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=258789"},"modified":"2021-12-13T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T19:41:02","slug":"end-roe-first-step-healing-wounded-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/end-roe-first-step-healing-wounded-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of Roe will only be a first step in healing our wounded nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/on-the-extremism-of-abortion-activism-today\/\">National Review<\/a>) On Saturday, I was confronted by two abortion activists who appear to be readers of my work. (<em>Kathryn Jean Lopez, what are you going to blame abortion on next?<\/em> I\u2019ll own that. Abortion has devastatingly grave consequences on our souls and the soul of our nation, so to speak.) One who stuck with me until the Witness for Life prayer vigil outside Planned Parenthood returned to Old St. Patrick\u2019s for Benediction, kept announcing what a good day she was having because no one was forcing her to give birth that day.<\/p>\n<p>Again, this harkens back to the Amy Coney Barrett questioning last week during the <em>Dobbs <\/em>oral arguments.<\/p>\n<p>They want the right to a dead baby if there is a pregnancy. The callousness toward the unborn baby is so cruel. And even more alarming is the number of people who are willing to say, \u201cMy mother should have aborted me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFZDhM5Gwhk\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>I had that conversation with an Uber driver going back to my hotel after the Supreme Court oral arguments and rally. He said his mother would have been better off aborting him because it kept her with an abusive husband. Any suggestion that his life was a consolation to her didn\u2019t trump his contention that she had every right to decide to have a dead baby \u2014 him.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll live up to the accusation I met on the streets Saturday: This is the result of a half century of <em>Roe<\/em>. Regular people \u2014 not just the abortion activists \u2014 have no sense of the beautiful, unrepeatable value of their own human life. They can talk about the importance of climate change and saving the planet, but they can\u2019t see the value of the creation that is themselves. This <em>is<\/em> why we treat one another so badly, and even if not with poor intentions, it is transactional at best.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion is a deep wound on our hearts, minds, and souls. The end of <em>Roe<\/em> will be only a first step in healing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This article was published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/on-the-extremism-of-abortion-activism-today\/\">National Review<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(National Review) On Saturday, I was confronted by two abortion activists who appear to be readers of my work. (Kathryn Jean Lopez, what are you going to blame abortion on next? I\u2019ll own that. Abortion has devastatingly grave consequences on our souls and the soul of our nation, so to speak.) One who stuck with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":824,"featured_media":209397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7077],"tags":[7724,372,298,144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The end of Roe will only be a first step in healing our wounded nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"People can talk about the importance of climate change and saving the planet, but they can\u2019t see the value of the creation that is themselves.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/end-roe-first-step-healing-wounded-nation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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