Although the temperatures hovered around freezing and winds continued to whip through Washington, pro-lifers came by the thousands, undeterred by the weather, to participate in the 35th annual March for Life.
Although many young people at today's march were not born when Roe v. Wade was handed down, to quote one teenager, they are all "survivors" of it. These children have grown up in an abortion-on-demand society and witnessed the devastation it inflicts on women, the family, and millions of their peers whom they will never have the opportunity to meet. In the face of 35 years of pro-abortion propaganda and indoctrination, young Americans are embracing a culture of life with renewed intensity.
The advent of ultrasound has provided an unanswerable rebuttal to the pro-choice argument that the beginning of human life is mere opinion. As a result (as the political establishment can testify) abortion as an issue in 2008 is not losing traction but gaining it.
Although pro-lifers are hailing a decline in abortion, the widespread use of RU-486 is arousing fresh concern. According to an article in the Washington Post, abortions by RU-486, the chemical alternative to surgical abortion, have risen 22 percent a year and are now responsible for 14 percent of the total abortions performed in the first nine weeks of pregnancy.
In spite of the outcry from both medical and conservative groups, all of which caution that the drug seriously endangers women's health, more than 840,000 U.S. women have been persuaded to use RU-486 as part of a broader political agenda that is claiming women and children as its victims. There are at least 1,000 documented reports of side-effects from taking RU-486, ranging from infection and hemorrhaging to ectopic pregnancies and even death, yet more than half of abortion traders are now offering RU-486 as an option.
RU-486 has compromised women's safety and the integrity of the FDA's drug approval process.
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