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A truly pro-life celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to cooperative efforts to pass legislation protecting life, women's rights and motherhood, said an editorial in Vatican News and L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.

The U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade is "tremendously important" for the nation and the cause of life, but it's not "a day simply for celebration," said the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

The Church also has a long history of assisting and advocating for the voiceless and those in need. Through the years, the Church in the United States has responded with compassion to expectant mothers in crisis or with unplanned pregnancies.

With Ada's first pregnancy, she didn't have the support, she didn't know the resources available to her. She often ran out of diapers and clothes and had trouble finding people to talk to about it.

A Catholic diocese and nuns are working to reduce the number of women who die in childbirth and the number of children who die young, and a hospital administrator said it does not take expensive technology.

May 10, 2022 Hosted by Jessica Keating, M.Div..​ Erika Bachiochi, J.D. (Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center), Charles Camosy (Associate Professor of Theology, Fordham University), Kathleen Domingo (Executive Director, California Catholic Conference) and​ ​Gloria Purvis (Consultant, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Religious Liberty. Pastoral Fellow, McGrath Institute for Church Life.) discuss "A Post-Roe World? The Future of Abortion and Motherhood in America." This presentation was a special edition of the, "Conversations That Matter: The Crossroads of Science and Human Dignity" spring series sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. The series was held virtually from February 17 - May 9, 2022. For more information, visit https://mcgrath.nd.edu/conversations.