Documentation on Abortion and the Right to Life - National Conference of
Catholic Bishops
Following are collections of documents containing testimonies of the United
States Bishops' Conference before the US Congress, and various statements of the
Bishops' Conference in the years immediately before and after Roe vs. Wade.
They are sometimes referred to in other publications as "Documentation I" and
"Documentation II."
Documentation on the Right to Life and Abortion
Testimony of United States Catholic
Conference on Constitutional Amendment Protecting Unborn Human Life Before the
Sub-Committee on Constitutional Amendments of the Senate Committee on the
Judiciary, March 7, 1974
1974 Testimony of John Cardinal Krol to
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
1974 Testimony of Timothy Cardinal
Manning to Senate Committee on the Judiciary
1974 Testimony of Humberto Cardinal
Medeiros to Senate Committee on the Judiciary
1974 Testimony of John Cardinal Cody to Senate
Committee on the Judiciary
Resolution on the
Pro-life Constitutional Amendment - Issued by the NCCB (November 13, 1973)
Statement on the
Anti-abortion Amendment - A Statement Issued by the Administrative Committee of
the NCCB (September 18, 1973)
Pastoral Guidelines for the Catholic
Hospital and Catholic Health Care Personnel - Ad Hoc Committee on Pro-Life
Activities, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, April 11, 1973
Pastoral
Message of the Administrative Committee, National Conference of Catholic Bishops
(February 13, 1973)
Statement of the Committee for
Pro-Life Affairs, National Conference of Catholic Bishops (January 24, 1973)
Declaration on Abortion -
National Conference of Catholic Bishops (November 18, 1970)
Statement on Abortion -
National Conference of Catholic Bishops (April 22, 1970)
Statement on Abortion -
National Conference of Catholic Bishops (April 17, 1969)
Human Life in Our Day - Pastoral
Letter, National Conference of Catholic Bishops (November 15, 1968)
Excerpts from the Constitution on the Church
in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes, Second Vatican Council, December 7, 1965)
Documentation on Abortion and the Right to Life II
Testimony of United States Catholic
Conference on Constitutional Amendments Protecting Human Life before the
Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee on the
Judiciary, March 24, 1976
Statement of Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin,
President, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Before the Subcommittee on
Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee on the Judiciary, March
24, 1976
Statement of Terence Cardinal Cooke, Chairman,
Committee for Pro-Life Activities, Before the Subcommittee on Civil and
Constitutional Rights of the House Committee on the Judiciary, March 24, 1976
Pastoral Plan for
Pro-life Activities (November 20, 1975)
