Archbishop Bernard Hebda released a video Jan. 25 urging people to reach their state senators to head off what the archbishop called “part of the most extreme abortion legislative agenda in Minnesota history.”
The state Senate is expected to debate a bill Jan. 27 that would place the right to abortion into state law. Its companion bill, HF1, known as the Protect Reproductive Options Act, or PRO Act, passed the House Jan. 19, and Gov. Tim Walz has said he would sign the legislation into law if it reached his desk.
“Our most vulnerable brothers and sisters need our help right now,”
the archbishop said in the video and in a statement on the Archdiocese
of St. Paul and Minneapolis website.“The
PRO Act is part of the most extreme abortion legislative agenda in
Minnesota history, allowing for abortion for any reason and at any time
without any regulation. How disturbing that a pre-born child whose heart
is beating, who can feel pain and who may even be viable outside the
womb is treated with such disdain,” the archbishop said. Read More...