The Unnoticed Anniversary

You may not realize it, but today is the twenty-sixth anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

by Rod D. Martin
January 22, 1999

You may not realize it, but today is the twenty-sixth anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

It is certainly understandable if you don't remember. The President is on trial for his life, and millions are busily cheering him on. While Dale Bumpers tells us perjury is less important than a misdemeanor, the President goes on national television to suggest government should invest Social Security funds in the stock market, a back-door plan for government ownership of large chunks of American industry, as well as the institutionalization of the sort of bribery Clinton mastered in Chinagate. Tornadoes ravage, and the Super Bowl is coming up.

It's easy to see why you'd be distracted.

You're not alone, either. Pastors across America remain silent, just as they have from the beginning. It took my own Southern Baptist Convention -- supposedly the epitome of right-wing Christendom -- seven years and a virtual revolution to so much as take a stand on the issue; many of its so-ca…