Aborting Roe

Now that we have a President who is committed to a pro-life Supreme Court, here's what we can do to get ahead of that in the states.

by Rod D. Martin
January 22, 2001

The sun came up today, for the first time in nine years. That's how many pro-life Americans feel this day, the first Roe anniversary post-Clinton. For the first time in a long time, there is real hope, a hope that the killing may stop.

George Walker Bush is unabashedly a man of pro-life conviction, a man of deep (if somewhat new) faith, and a man who knows how to get things done. The question is not so much of his intentions, but of his ability to carry those intentions through; and, to no small extent, his ability to avoid mistakes. Two days into his presidency, he is already justifying hope.

This morning – a morning annually celebrated by his predecessor as a triumph of "women's rights" – Bush signed orders re-instituting Ronald Reagan's "Mexico City Policy" de-funding international abortion providers (to the tune of $425 million), as well as eliminating federal funding for abortion counseling. A partial-birth abortion ban is on the horizon, and John As…