WASHINGTON, January 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 32nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade abortion decision finds the pro-life movement poised to make significant gains in the upcoming year, an official with the U.S. Catholic Bishops said.
“The pro-life movement is as strong as it has ever been, especially among young people who have grown up under Roe and have seen the damage it has done,” said Cathy Cleaver Ruse, Esq., Director of Planning and Information for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Pro-Life Secretariat. “Drawing from its grassroots strength, it is well positioned to have a very positive impact at the state and national level,” Ruse said.
The movement is also preparing for the possibility of changes to the Supreme Court, she said. “In considering nominees to the federal courts and even to the Supreme Court, we urge Senators not to impose a pro-abortion litmus test on judicial nominees,” Ruse said. “Requiring allegiance to Roe v. Wade as a condition for serving as a federal judge is unfair, unjust, and wrong. It not only offends Catholics, but also the majority of Americans who believe an unlimited right to abortion is wrong.”
“Abortion advocates are utterly 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 showing that, 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.”