Pro-life groups see brighter days
By Joyce Howard Price
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
January 23, 2006

As tens of thousands of abortion foes prepare for today's 33rd annual March for Life, they are buoyed by developments they see as promising for their cause, both at the state and federal levels.
"The pro-life movement is in the best position it has ever been in," said Wendy Wright, executive vice president of Concerned Women for America (CWA). Pro-life advocates are excited about broad abortion bans proposed by lawmakers in two states, Ohio and Indiana.

It's their hope that these bills become law and that the statutes are eventually considered and upheld by a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court in a challenge to the Jan. 22, 1973, ruling in Roe v. Wade that abortion was a constitutional right.

"We're seeing, after many years of education and work, that people are beginning to understand the pro-life movement. The culture is shifting to a more pro-life perspective," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, which opposes abortion. The rest