Two steps back

Abortion | As pro-lifers march, the Supreme Court deals their cause a rebuke | Bob Jones

Hundreds of thousands of pro-life marchers descended on Washington, D.C., on Jan. 24, only to get a cold welcome from nature—and a cold shoulder from the Supreme Court.

Braving frigid temperatures and snow-slushy streets, participants in the 32nd annual March for Life headed to the steps of the building where seven justices legalized abortion in 1973. Coats and scarves helped make the day more bearable, as did President Bush's telephoned exhortation: "The America of our dreams, where every child is welcomed in . . . life and protected in law may still be some ways away," he told the crowd gathered on the National Mall. "But even from the far side of the river . . . we can see its glimmerings."