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For half a century, it has felt like America has been on a relentless march from traditional and conservative values toward a future of progressive relativism. The reaction from the right was mainly to get up, as William F. Buckley once said, screaming across history, stop.
But for one move, the stalemate was not good enough; losing slower was unacceptable. The pro-life movement wanted to win, and on June 25, 2022, it did.
Born just days after Roe v Wade was decided in 1973, this movement can now be called abolition, suffrage, and civil rights. To put it plainly, it is now one of the most significant and successful social and political movements in the history of the United States of America.
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Millions of Americans, including many who have not lived to this day, refused to accept that the unborn could be killed at our will. A decades-long project, which seemed impossible for much of the time, has been completed. Because of this, millions of future Americans will enjoy the simple right to life.
Pro-life protesters protest outside the Supreme Court building on the day the arguments were heard in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, Washington, Dec. 1, 2021. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
In time, we may see Friday’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade as inevitable, just as we do now with the end of slavery and voting for women. But just as those great leaps forward were forged for America, not predestined, so was this one.
Big women, men, and organizations are responsible for this victory, but none are as important as the small activist. Every youth marches joyfully to the hope of life, rosary, and vigil. Every silent prayer outside a small town abortion clinic, powerless to stop the carnage inside, asking for the Lord’s help, yes, but also to be His help. Life’s invisible but awesome power lived in devotion to the common good, to life.
This victory was won by every American who held on to the healthy, simple truth that as we mourn the miscarriage, we must also mourn the aborted child. That there is no moral algebra that can make them wrong.
Maria Peña holds a rosary and signs off outside a building with an abortion provider in Dallas, Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
This struggle to protect the unborn has taught us that we don’t simply have to accept the ever-expanding cycle of a progressive society that cannot identify good or evil. On the contrary, we can bring our community closer to the center, to dignity, to the recognition of the beauty and sanctity of all human life. We can do more than stop the tide; we can even part the seas.
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This is an age of hyperbole where each news cycle supposedly teems with different chapters of future history books. That makes it difficult to fully understand what a change in American life, the end of Roe v Wade is. No issue has been fought so closely in American politics. No victory was achieved so soon after, fearing it would never happen.
Somewhere today, in the wild, vast expanse of great America, a child who otherwise would have died will live. Somewhere in our future, cries of life that would otherwise have remained silent will pierce the air. And more from those lives.
Jim Snively, of Huntsville, waves at passing cars as he stands in front of the Alabama Women’s Wellness Center, May 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Eric Schultz)
The pro-life movement is not over yet. It must shift from the courts to the people and bring the will to save unborn lives into their hearts now that abortion can be ended. But in a very real way, the pro-life movement is complete. The founding mission has been accomplished. It has done the impossible, turned back time.
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In the closing moments of Puccini’s aria Nessun Dorma, there is a crescendo to glorious beauty. In these words, we find something akin to the redemption of this profound moment. The fight against abortion has often gone through dark times, with the weight of 63 million lives wiped out since the war began. But today, we can say with confidence,
“Get out, O night! Set, stars! Set, stars! At sunrise, I will win! I will win! | I will win!”
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David Marcus is a New York City-based columnist and the author of “Charade: The Covid Lies That Crushed A Nation.”
