Syracuse Right to Life March, January 19, 2013

Gathering in front of the Roman Catholic Diocesan offices in downtown Syracuse

One of the signs
 

Former Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle addresses rally

Raymond took these pictures of the annual Syracuse March for Life that we attended today in downtown Syracuse.  -PD

 

Albert Mohler: Forty Years After Roe, Human Dignity Hangs in the Balance

After addressing a large secular assembly on issues of moral controversy, I turned and faced a woman who urgently wanted to ask me a question: “Why won’t the abortion issue just go away?”

I knew exactly what she was asking. I often meet abortion rights advocates who honestly thought that the national controversy over abortion would simply melt away within a few years of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.

That was clearly the hope of the Supreme Court majority that signed onto the opinion written by Associate Justice Harry Blackmun. In a note he wrote to himself as he drafted the final opinion and looked to its aftermath, Blackmun revealed a rather optimistic assumption: “It will be an unsettled period for a while.”...