Sixty-two million persons have lost their lives to abortion since 1973. Yes, I am using the word person intentionally because living things only belong to one species. They don't change species. When a human being is conceived they are a member of the human species. Thus each one is a person. This is science. This is basic biology.
In 1972 the people of Michigan, my home state, defeated a ballot measure that would have made abortion legal in Michigan, up until 20 weeks gestation. It was defeated by a wide margin. I distinctly remember my parents working against this measure and their great relief that abortion would remain illegal in Michigan. Then, only a few months later, the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down by the Supreme Court overturning every law protecting the unborn in all fifty states. My parents were livid. How could a court overturn the expressed will of the people.
Every year since that infamous and rogue decision by the Supreme Court pro-lifers from all over the country come to Washington to protest this raw exercise of judicial power. They come to defend the unborn.
Those of us who defend the unborn would still have much work to do because many states would still allow abortion.
Roe v Wade is hardly settled law, as some claim. The first March for life was in 1974 and hundreds of thousands of people have traveled across the country to protest ever since.
Oh Lord, please bring an end to the scourge of abortion in this country. May all come to recognize the humanity and personhood of the unborn child. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.
