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Wade would lead to cooperative efforts to pass legislation protecting life, women\u2019s rights and motherhood, said an editorial in Vatican News and L\u2019Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those efforts should include finding ways to protect maternal health and lower the maternal death rate, assist poor women, provide or expand paid family leave and control access to guns in the country, said the piece written by Andrea Tornielli, editorial director at the Vatican Dicastery for Communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vatican published the editorial June 25, the day after the Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion in the United States, giving individual states the power to legislate abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court ruling, Tornielli wrote, \u201ccould provide an opportunity to reflect on life, the protection of the defenseless and the discarded, women\u2019s rights and the protection of motherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout his pontificate, the editorial said, Pope Francis has advocated for the protection of all human life, including the life of unborn children, \u201cthe most defenseless and innocent among us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNowadays, efforts are made to deny them their human dignity and to do with them whatever one pleases, taking their lives and passing laws preventing anyone from standing in the way of this,\u201d the pope wrote in \u201cThe Joy of the Gospel,\u201d his 2013 apostolic exhortation, which set out the vision and priorities for this pontificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The defense of unborn life \u201cis closely linked to the defense of each and every other human right,\u201d the pope wrote. \u201cIt involves the conviction that a human being is always sacred and inviolable, in any situation and at every stage of development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tornielli wrote that \u201ca serious and shared reflection on life and the protection of motherhood would require us to move away from the logic of opposing extremisms and the political polarization that often \u2014 unfortunately \u2014 accompanies discussion on this issue, preventing true dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeing for life, always, for example, means being concerned if the mortality rates of women due to motherhood increase,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIn the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the maternal mortality rate has gone from 20.1 deaths of women per 100,000 live births in 2019 to 23.8 per 100,000 in 2020. 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