Thursday, January 22, 2009

Our Struggle for the Soul of our Nation

As my daughter completes her first ever day of participation in the March for Life in Washington, DC, a duty I performed as a college student twenty-five years ago, I find this piece by Robert P. George timely and insightful:

Thirty-six years ago tomorrow, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its infamous decision in Roe v. Wade and its companion case Doe v. Bolton. In the name of a generalized “right to privacy” allegedly implicit in the Due Process Clause of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, seven justices created a license to kill the unborn.

These men probably had no idea that they were unleashing a struggle for the soul of the nation.


Please read the rest here.

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