(David Crary, AP) In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion,
America’s religious leaders and denominations have responded in
strikingly diverse ways — some celebrating the state-level bans that
have ensued, others angered that a conservative Christian cause has
changed the law of the land in ways they consider oppressive. The divisions are epitomized in the country’s largest denomination — the Catholic Church. National polls repeatedly show that a majority of U.S. Catholics believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases, yet the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops supports sweeping bans.(...)
