text: The Cuomo response has been unfortunate, that as a Catholic he does not believe in abortion but will not vote to ban it or appoint justices who would because we live in a pluralist society.  Almost every pro-choice politician sings from his hymnbook. What all of these politicians should have said was that as attorneys, they have to follow the law and uphold federal superiority in equal protection matters, so Roe cannot be overturned and the matter cannot be sent to the states (and should not be if they could engineer the votes, given how poorly such a stance works in civil rights, gay rights and in dealing with slavery. Nationalists won the civil war and anyone who wishes to turn back this issue is a neo-Confederate traitor or a Republican partisan operative using this issue cynically, including the Bishops.