The state’s Catholic Bishops are sharply criticizing new proposals by the Murphy Administration that would expand abortion care in New Jersey, promising to fight any such effort. Calling it “a direct attack on the dignity and sanctity of life,” the leaders of the New Jersey Catholic dioceses in a statement expressed their “disappointment and outrage” over Gov. Phil Murphy’s announcement. The bishops, labeling abortion “an act that by its very nature terminates human life,” characterized the proposals “further evidence that we have failed as a society when a mother feels her only option is to e…
