Written testimony of Christina Francis, MD for the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Commitzee on Energy and Commerce hearing on "Roe Reversal: The Impacts of Taking Away the Constitutional Right to Abortion."

Abortion is no longer a constitutional "right" in the United States.

The head of the Southern Baptist office in Washington D.C. once said to me during St. John Paul II's papacy, "You've got a pope there who really knows how to pope."

Several years ago, as I have heard tell, my formidable old professor of medieval Italian literature, Robert Hollander, was reading Chaucer, and he fell to weeping because the Christian faith that animated the poet was so beautiful, and he, the professor, could not share it.

Ever since a draft copy of the Supreme Court decision regarding abortion has been leaked, social media has been awash with arguments and testimonies from both sides.

I first met Erika Bachiochi — then Erika Schubert — in July 1998, when she was my student in the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society in Cracow. 

To all of you I say: do not be victims of the culture.

The first reading in today’s Mass (1 Kings 17:10-16) speaks to us of the paradox of poverty.

Not only has denying the full humanity of all biological human beings always been a mistake, it has shown itself repeatedly to be one of the worst mistakes we ever make. 

If we were to pause and actively confront and acknowledge the reality of the grave evil that has so often purchased our vaccines, it might change everything.