Bishops' Spokeswoman Says Pro-Life Cause Is Strong 32 Years After Roe V. Wade

WASHINGTON(January 21, 2005)-January 22, 2005 marks the 32nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision of Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal throughout pregnancy. “Thirty-two years after Roe v. Wade, the pro-life movement is as strong as it has ever been, and poised to make significant gains in the coming year," said Cathy Cleaver Ruse, Esq., Director of Planning and Information for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Pro-Life Secretariat.


"While abortion advocacy groups have promised to spend millions to see that the Senate imposes a pro-abortion litmus test on judicial nominees," Ruse said, "we strongly urge Senators not to do so."


"Requiring support for Roe v. Wade as a condition for serving as a federal judge is simply wrong. It offends not only Catholics, but the majority of Americans who believe an unlimited right to abortion is wrong.”


“Abortion advocates are out of step with the world around them," said Ruse. "The Center for Gender Equality, which supports unlimited abortion, recently published a survey of women indicating little support for its agenda: of all the 'top priority' issues for the women’s movement, 'keeping abortion legal' ranked dead last."


"Roe v. Wade has been a social experiment on the lives of women and children," Ruse continued. "But the culture is turning away from abortion. More and more people believe that all children deserve a chance to be born, and that women deserve better than abortion."
 

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