‘We cannot allow state-sanctioned violence against a whole class of human beings’
By By Bridge Sielicki
Live Action News
Robert Barron, the Bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, spoke out against the state’s new abortion law last week following the law’s signature by Governor Tim Walz.
The new law, which has been dubbed the “most extreme” in the nation, enshrines the constitutional right to taxpayer-funded abortion up to birth. It offers no pro-life protections, and also removes parental notification requirements for minors, thereby allowing a child to get an abortion without limits, and without her parents’ consent.
In a February 1 video posted to social media, Bishop Barron called the law “morally outrageous.”
Listen to the Bishop, HERE
“I want to share with you my anger, my frustration over this terrible law that was just signed by the governor in Minnesota — the most really extreme abortion law that’s on the books in the wake of the Roe v. Wade reversal,” Barron said in the video, noting that a 12-year-old could now get an abortion without her parents’ knowledge.
“But the worst thing,” he added, “is it basically permits abortion all the way through pregnancy up to the very end. And indeed, indeed if a child somehow survives a botched abortion, the law now prohibits an attempt to save that child’s life. I don’t know why this is really debated anymore in our country, but this strikes me as just the worst kind of barbarism. And in the name of, I don’t know, subjectivity, and freedom, and choice and all this, we’re accepting this kind of brutality.”