Keep advocating for life ‘from womb to tomb’ even when laws don’t, bishop urges January 23, 2024By Theresa Cisneros OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Auxiliary Bishop Matthew G. Elshoff compared California’s 2022 decision to enshrine a right to abortion up to the point of delivery into the state constitution to the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution did not guarantee the rights of American citizenship to people of African-American descent, even if they were no longer slaves.