All legitimate authority comes from God and is responsible to God. Nations as well as individuals must follow his law. Protecting human life is no more a sectarian creed than the Declaration of Independence is a sectarian document. Because all rights depend on life, the right to life is the most fundamental issue in any campaign. All three readings probe the meaning of true and pure worship, which can never be simply external observance, but must involve an adherence of mind and heart to God's commands.
None are more needy in our day than the unborn.
Christian service reaches out to them and their mothers. The first reading, furthermore, shows that not only individuals, but nations, are called to be faithful to God's law. The Church does not write the laws of the nation, but proclaims the truths of God to which those laws must conform. Today's second reading strongly condemns favoritism, prejudice, and discrimination. Our nation's abortion policy, recently reaffirmed by the Supreme Court, is discrimination against the unborn and those in the process of birth.