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Edward Mechmann

Ed Mechmann is a graduate of Catholic elementary and high schools, Columbia College and Harvard Law School. He was a former state and federal prosecutor before coming to the Archdiocese of New York in 1994. He is the Director of Public Policy and the Director of Safe Environment at the Archdiocese of New York. He has written extensively on pro-life, religious freedom, and public policy topics. He is married with two adult children. He and his wife volunteer in their parish and with the American Red Cross. All opinions here are mine, and mine alone, and do not represent official statements of the Archdiocese. All Glory to God. View more posts

Bio as of October 2026


What the Defeat of ‘Fetal Personhood’ Means for the Battle Ahead 

20 Oct 2022
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One of the tragic errors by the Supreme Court in its 1973 decision Roe v. Wade was the holding that unborn children are not legal “persons” within the meaning of the Constitution. When the Court overruled Roe this summer in the Dobbs decision, they unfortunately left...
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What to Make of Mark Houck’s Arrest

29 Sep 2022
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Many years ago, when I was a federal prosecutor, I understood that one of the worst things that can happen to a person is to come to the attention of a federal prosecutor. Mark Houck, a pro-life leader and founder of the Catholic men’s ministry The King’s Men, is now...
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Luke Mechmann 1994-2022

11 Aug 2022
The following is reprinted, from his blog, Stepping out of the Boat,  with permission  from our dear friend and colleague Ed Mechmann. Please keep Luke and the Mechmann family in your prayers. Eulogy for Luke [On August 3, my youngest son Luke died from an accidental drug...
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What Was the Vote About?

04 Aug 2022
The proposal was an attempt to overturn a 2019 ruling by the Kansas Supreme Court, which held that the right to an abortion was “fundamental” under their state constitution. The amendment would have made clear that Kansas’ constitution doesn’t guarantee a right to abortion or...
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Misinformation about Abortion Law after Dobbs

21 Jul 2022
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[This piece is reprinted with permission from Edward Mechmann’s Public Policy Blog Stepping Out of the Boat  Original post date July 20, 2022] You can’t understand abortion law unless you understand abortion facts. And that is proving extremely difficult in a media and...
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The Effort to Add Abortion to the New York State Constitution—and the Fallout We Could Expect

16 Jul 2022
New York is well known as “the abortion capital of America.” But there never seems to be enough for pro-abortion ideologues. The situation in New York is already grim enough. New York has almost 75,000 abortions every year. About one-quarter of all pregnancies end in abortion...
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Today’s Executive Order: Both Performative and Deeply Troublesome

08 Jul 2022
In the aftermath of the Dobbs decision, pro-abortion advocates have been scrambling for a response from the federal government. They obviously don’t want to take their unpopular extremist position—abortion on demand for any reason up until birth—to state legislatures....
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So What Does it Mean? The Legal Consequences of Dobbs

30 Jun 2022
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  We are fortunate to have Edward Mechmann’s deft analysis. Click here for a special preview of his outstanding article for the Human Life Review.
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The Legal Consequences of Dobbs

29 Jun 2022
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  The goal the pro-life movement has worked and prayed for over the last half-century has finally been accomplished. The Supreme Court has finally overturned Roe v. Wade[1] and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.[2] Here is the money quote from the majority opinion in Dobbs v....
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ROE OVERTURNED

24 Jun 2022
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    The goal the pro-life movement has worked and prayed for over the last half-century has finally been accomplished. The Supreme Court has finally overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Here is the money quote from the majority opinion, authored by...
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