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#426 The End of Roe? - Joe Heschmeyer

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It looks like Roe v. Wade is finally about to be overruled. What does it mean that the news has been leaked? What does the draft decision say? Joe Heschmeyer joins us to discuss what appears to be very happy news. Cy Kellett: Apparently, Roe v. Wade will be overturned. Joe Heschmeyer is next. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. Thank you so much for being with us. Cy Kellett: We’re going to respond to a recent news story in this episode, because it’s a b…

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Apparently, Roe vs. Wade will be overturned.

0:03.1

Joe Heschmeier is next.

0:09.4

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for Living,

0:13.0

Understanding and Defending Your Catholic Faith.

0:15.5

I'm Sy Kelly at your host. Thank you so much for being with us.

0:18.4

We're kind of going to respond to a recent news story in this episode because it's a big one.

0:22.6

We've been waiting for a long time to find out whether or not the Roe vs. Wade

0:26.5

decision would stand. Apparently, it will not.

0:29.9

A really shocking and unprecedented way of finding that out. It was leaked.

0:34.4

And that gave us some uncertainty about whether even we should be talking about this.

0:38.0

But I asked our guest, Joe Heschmeier, about that and about what's in the decision.

0:42.5

And here's what he had to say.

0:51.7

Joe Heschmeier, Paul, just extraordinary. Thanks for being here with us on this special day.

0:56.0

I'm pleased to be here.

0:57.6

I'm really glad to get to talk with you about this. Your Catholic Theologian and Apologist

1:01.2

and also a lawyer. And we're here to talk a little bit about this, the claim that Roe vs. Wade

1:09.3

is to be discarded entirely. So I'm really glad to get to talk with you about it. But I want to

1:16.0

start with this question, should we be talking about it? And I don't mean like we're going to jinx

1:21.7

it or something. But clearly an evil thing was done to get this news out.

1:27.2

Are we complicit in that evil in even talking about this?

1:32.7

That's a good question. And I think the answer to that is no. We're not encouraging people to leak

1:38.4

by discussing it. And it's out there as public knowledge. This is always the thing that comes

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