It didn't get a lot of media coverage, but tens of thousands of people met on the National Mall on Friday to commemorate the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. CNSNews posted a story covering the event.
Since Roe vs. Wade made abortion legal thirty-seven years ago, more than 50 million babies have been killed.
According to the article:
"Men and women who are part of the Silent No More Campaign shared stories about how abortion has hurt them. They carried signs that said "I regret my abortion." Others carried signs mourning the loss of fatherhood from abortion."
I understand that there are rare times when an abortion is a medical necessity. It should not be illegal to perform an abortion in those circumstances. However, abortion is not the same as birth control, and we need to make that clear as a society. As a society, we need to place value on both a mother and her unborn child. We need to make sure that a mother has available to her the resources she needs to see her pregnancy through to term and make the decisions she needs to make that are best for herself and her child.
Abortion is not simply a political issue. It affects the lives of everyone involved in the decision. We need to be ready and willing to help in crisis pregnancies and to help those who have had abortions heal emotionally after the process.
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