America: Choosing Life?
This fight is far from over; but pro-lifers have come a lot farther than most people think.
"Is your state next?"
-- NARAL email after passage of the
South Dakota abortion ban
by Rod D. Martin
April 20, 2006
They lost the Congress in 1994.
They lost the presidency in 2000 and failed to recapture it in 2004.
They watched helplessly as President George W. Bush reinstituted Ronald Reagan's Mexico City policy defunding international abortion providers; ended federal abortion counseling funding; signed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act; opposed the destruction of embryos for stem cell research; challenged Oregon's doctor-assisted suicide act; backed abstinence education, crisis pregnancy programs and parental notification laws; extended state health care coverage to “unborn children” (yes, that's the wording of the law); and signed a federal ban on partial-birth abortion.
They railed hysterically against the President's overwhelmingly qualified choices of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court -- the latter a replacement for retiring pro-choice Justice Sandra Day O'Connor…