Saturday marked one year since the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade case. The decision in Dobbs allowed abortion bans and restrictions in multiple states across the country to go into effect.
By overturning Roe v. Wade, the letter said that “the justices stripped women of their right to abortion and escalated an ongoing reproductive health care crisis in this country.”
According to the Democrats who signed the letter, abortion bans and restrictions “disproportionately harm those who already endure poverty, discrimination, and racism.”
“As Catholics, we believe all individuals are free to make their own personal decisions about their bodies, families, and futures,” the Democrats said. “Our faith and our country’s Constitution demand that no person impose a single religious viewpoint into law or regulation.”
“As Catholic Democrats who embrace the vocation and mission of the laity as expressed by the late Pope John Paul II in his apostolic exhortation Christifideles Laici,” the letter continued, “we believe that the Church is the ‘people of God,’ called to be a moral force in the broadest sense.”
Christifideles Laici was published in 1988 after the 1987 bishops’ synod on the vocation and mission of the laity.
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