Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children
Today we come together to pray on the 45th anniversary of the decision by the United States Supreme Court to sanction abortion basically at any time and for basically any reason. It is a flawed sense of freedom. Saint John Paul II taught us that true freedom is the not the right to do whatever we want according to our whim or convenience but the right to do what we ought to do according to God’s law. God’s law is respect for all human life from conception through natural death. God’s law is that he is the determiner of life and its length. God’s law is above that of nine justices of the US Supreme Court.
Sadly it is estimated that since this tragic court decision over 60 million little ones have been denied their right to life, their opportunity to share their gifts with us, their dignity to become who God created them to be.
The bishops of the United States have designated this as a Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. The collect or opening prayer states it well:
“God our Creator, we give thanks to you, who alone have the power to impart the
breathe of life, as you form each of us in our mother’s womb; grant we pray, that
we, whom you have made stewards of creation, may remain faithful to this sacred
trust and constant in safeguarding the dignity of every human life.”
At the March for Life rally in Washington last week Cardinal Timothy Dolan noted “our
belief in the dignity of the human person and sacredness of human life propels us to concern for
human life wherever, whenever, and however it is threatened, from racism to immigrants, from
the war torn to the hungry.”
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