I KNOW MOST CATHOLICS are genuinely good people. With truly great hearts. Seeking to do what is right and good. To see clearly amidst dense fog constantly piped in by money-motivated entities who care not about the objective good of others. Accordingly, I understand how, statistically, most of these favor legal abortion outside of medically necessary circumstances (e.g., ectopic pregnancy).
IF THIS IS YOU, THIS IS NOT A "GOTCHA." Not about political or ideological sides. Not between you and me. But between each of us and God. Based upon a truth we cannot presume to determine, but in Whom we are determined. Without which all moral order is absurd. And anything goes. And we have nothing to say to anybody about anything.
I WRITE INVOKING formidable leaders who were at the forefront of the abortion industry, including Dr. Bernard Nathanson who presided over the largest abortion clinic in the free world. And Norma McCorvey, the Roe of Roe v Wade, who later in life recognized how she was weaponized by the industry. Add Abby Johnson, decorated by Planned Parenthood for her leadership in the death industry. All awakened. All repented. All converts to truth. Converts to Catholicism.
PLAINLY: IF YOU VOTED "YES" ON OH ISSUE 1, you are complicit in allowing children to be killed for any reason through all 9 months of pregnancy. Given full knowledge and deliberate consent, you are in mortal sin. Your soul is in grave danger. Until you sincerely repent in the Sacrament of Penance.
AND EVERY PASTOR who recognized the gravity of this sin in exhorting all to vote "NO," out of concern for the souls to whom you've been entrusted, please be just as formidable in making this known. Now you are entrusted with pastoring clearly and courageously in a far more consequential way than before the vote. A far greater concern than even the COVID pandemic, which merely threatened the body. This threatens their eternal soul.
LORD JESUS CHRIST,
Awaken us. Heal us. Revive us.
From your blog posts, it’s clear that you have an intense and disturbing hatred for those who don’t live the exact same lifestyle as you. Do you only pretend to care about life when it involves controlling women, but when those children grow up and fall into a category that you don’t like (transgender, gay, a refugee), it’s perfectly fine to write sneering, degrading, and very un-Christ-like blog posts about them on a weekly basis? You support laws that have drastically increased maternal mortality rates and have caused multiple women to die because doctors now refuse to provide life-saving care when they have a miscarriage or birth complications. What about the woman from Georgia who was arrested for having a miscarriage last week? Are you glad that innocent women are now dying trying to give birth because of what you wanted? What if you have daughters or granddaughters and the laws you’re so excited to enact endanger their lives? Will you be laughing and jeering at them as they die giving birth because of what you wanted? If one of them has a miscarriage, will you be giddy to pick up the phone and dial 911 to have them arrested and locked in jail for 10+ years, over something they couldn’t control? The “pro-life” movement has nothing to do with supporting life. It’s only pro-birth. You attempt to use euphemisms and flowerly language to cover up what this is actually about, which is control. I, personally, now refuse to have children or give birth in the US because it is effectively a death sentence. Many other women agree.
By the way, by so emphatically supporting someone like Trump, who has repeatedly made incredibly predatory and dehumanizing remarks about women, has been convicted of sexual abuse, attempted to appoint an Attorney General who had sex with and sex trafficked a child, and nominated men with credible rape allegations against them to the Supreme Court and as Defense Secretary, you’re directly contributing to rape culture despite, again, claiming to care about life. This never has and never will be about actually caring for life and human beings.
Here are some credible medical studies and sources to back up my points:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10728320/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2709326/
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-unequal-impacts-of-abortion-bans
https://www.ajmc.com/view/new-report-shows-worsening-health-outcomes-for-women-in-states-with-abortion-bans
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/06/30/abortion-bans-increase-maternal-mortality-even-more-study-shows