The abortion issue did not die after Roe v. Wade | Andrée Seu
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Around 1978 I was a militant pro-lifer for about three weeks. Then I decided I would rather sleep in on Saturday mornings.
In the '80s (better rested) a few of us piled into a car for a "Rescue" at an abortion clinic, which is where I first heard of Patrick Stanton, and his arrest for same. In the '90s, spotting a notice in the church bulletin that it was "Sanctity of Life Sunday," I went out for the prayer walk in front of Abington Hospital for two consecutive months. Pat Stanton was there, handing out signs with pictures of little feet and such. He didn't make small talk. Middle-aged women in passing cars performed rude hand gestures, and I checked out of the movement again.
In the fall of 2009, my neighbor organized a pro-Obama healthcare rally at Keswick Village, and it being a mere 10-minute walk from my house, I went to see. There was Pat Stanton with his signs, spoiling their love fest, the Channel 6 news van avoiding him.
Other Roe v. Wade articles in this issue:
A pro-baby wave | Optimistic signs point to a changing abortion debate | Marvin Olasky
Learning to wait | Denied federal funds, abstinence educators plan next moves | William McCleery
'Look after orphans' | Twenty ways to become an adoption-friendly church | Paul Golden
Chemical reaction | The drug RU486 gives women the option of abortion in privacy | Alisa Harris
Eyewitnesses | Ultrasound technology is one reason more Americans are becoming pro-life | Alisa Harris Finding searchers | Pregnancy centers buy Google real estate to reach abortion-minded women | Emily Belz
Higher learning? | Catholic colleges have become training ground for pro-abortion politicians | Anne Hendershott
Life changes | Anti-CPC forces alter their tactics and auditors eye Planned Parenthood | Alisa Harris
Called to a cause | The pro-life movement won over Marjorie Dannenfelser, and now she’s working to help it win over Congress | Marvin Olasky
'It all clicked together' | How one Christian volunteer found herself in the right place at the right time at a crisis pregnancy center in Texas | Susan Olasky
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