This is a historic day in the life of our country, which arouses thoughts, emotions and prayers ». Thus in a joint statement the president of the United States Bishops’ Conference (Usccb), Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles and the president of the Committee for Activities in favor of the life of the Usccb, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore regarding the decision of the US Supreme Court to cancel the constitutional protection of the right to abortion.
«For almost fifty years – the US bishops write – America has applied an unjust law that has allowed some to decide whether others can live or die; this policy has resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of unborn children, generations who have been denied the right to be born ”. “It is God’s will”: so Donald Trump on the decision of the US Supreme Court to annul the Roe V. Wade sentence on the right to abortion.