The Times They Are a-Changin'

...Americans were repelled by the procedure and rightly recoiled...

...The most direct assault on abortion rights, of course, has come from South Dakota, where the legislature passed and the governor signed a bill outlawing all abortions in that state except for those to save the life of the mother...

...The polling on abortion since Roe has remained remarkably consistent: Most Americans support reasonable limits on abortion...

...In January, researchers at Hamilton College and pollster John Zogby found in a national survey that 70 percent of high school girls in the class of 2006 would not consider an abortion if they became pregnant...

...How times change...

...That year, the pro-life Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, Bob Casey, was humiliatingly denied a speaking role at the Democratic National Convention...

...The court also declined to strike down a New Hampshire law requiring that parents be notified before their minor daughters obtain abortions, sending the case back to the circuit court for further review and chastising the lower court for overreaching on its decision overruling the Granite State statute...

...In addition to his nomination of constitutionalists to the Supreme Court, President Bush has repealed several of the Clinton-era pro-abortion executive orders...

...Thus, the position taken by the most extreme pro-abortion groups—the National Organization for Women, NARAL, the ACLU, and others—has the support of fewer than a quarter of the American people...

...Sono-grams and ultrasound imaging were unknown in 1973...

...And another partial-birth abortion case is in the judicial pipeline and headed for the Supreme Court...

...With the pro-abortion Clintons in the White House appointing radical abortion-rights advocates to the Supreme Court and rolling back Reagan-Bush era executive orders limiting abortion, the pro-life movement clearly was on the defensive...

...Is it any wonder that, as the 2008 presidential election approaches, politicians have noticeably moderated their pro-choice rhetoric compared with the triumphalism of 1992...

...Other factors intervened that generated growing support for the prolife movement...

...Most Americans had probably never heard of the procedure before former New Hampshire senator Bob Smith took to the floor of the Senate in 1995 with graphic illustrations of this gruesome procedure that entails a doctor killing a late-term, viable baby at the very moment of birth...

...Medical progress has made a scientific shambles of Roe's artificial trimester scheme...

...in 2006, proabortion Democrats recruited the late governor's pro-life son, Bobby Casey, to run for the Senate against the pro-life Rick Santorum, much to the fury of the NARAL crowd...

...Few had suspected that the pitiless logic of Roe would produce this barbarous practice, one the American Medical Association says is never medically necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother...

...The election of a pro-life president in 2000 also helped foster new respect for what George W. Bush calls the "culture of life...

...A decade ago, on the heels of a 1992 election season dubbed "the year of the woman," the movement was deeply engaged in the fight on Capitol Hill to stop passage of the Freedom of Choice Act, legislation that would have enshrined in law the "right" to abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy for any reason or no reason...

...The most extreme forms of feminism rejected traditional marriage, family, and child-bearing as vestiges of an oppressive patriarchal system...

...Moreover, legislatures in state after state have passed laws that enjoy overwhelming public support mandating parental notification for minors seeking abortions and requiring women seeking abortions to be fully informed about the medical facts and health implications of the procedure...

...Finally, the failure of extreme, radical feminism has de-romanticized abortion...

...For over 30 years, abortion advocates clamored for "abortion on demand," yet young women especially are becoming more pro-life than ever...

...in Michigan, for example, Governor Jennifer Granholm, a pro-choice Democrat, recently signed a bill requiring abortion clinics to offer women the opportunity to view ultrasound images of their unborn babies...

...Two new conservative jurists sit on the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice John Roberts...

...Many Americans concluded that if being for a woman's right to choose meant embracing such a hideous procedure, well, they no longer thought of themselves as pro-choice...

...How are we to account for this reversal of fortune...

...And as women have become better informed about the health risks of abortion—physical and psychologi-cal—they have embraced the culture of life in increasing numbers...

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...In Gallup polling since 1973, fewer than 25 percent support the availability of abortion in all circumstances, so-called "abortion on demand...

...Unlike Stenberg, which involved a state law in Nebraska, this case is a challenge to the federal law banning the grotesque procedure...

...Clearly, the national tide is running strongly in favor of the pro-life movement...

...Thus the new Roberts court will have the opportunity to revisit the previous ruling and subject o'Connor's "undue burden" test to rigorous constitutional scrutiny...

...Since the day it was handed down, Roe has been at war with science and technology...

...A Zogby poll taken earlier this year found the majority of Americans, in some cases near 70 percent, support pro-life laws currently being considered on the state and national level—from prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortions to lifting requirements that health insurance plans cover the procedure to 24-hour waiting periods and parental notification laws...

...Advances in pre-and neonatal care mean that babies born prematurely who never would have survived at the time of Roe not only survive, but also thrive and become healthy, happy children...

...NOW and NARAL alienated millions of Americans with a morally obtuse defense of the indefensible...

...The new Roberts court recently ruled in an 8-0 decision that statutes meant to fight organized crime racketeering could not be used against pro-life protesters convicted of violating trespass laws at abortion Marjorie Dannenfelser is president of the Susan B. Anthony List, which mobilizes and advances pro-life women in politics...

...The turning point for the pro-life movement may well have been the fight over partial-birth abortion...

...One of his first official acts was to reinstate Ronald Reagan's ban on U.S...

...This is a potentially important development considering that o'Connor cast the deciding vote in the Stenberg v. Carhart partial-birth abortion decision and was the author of the "undue burden" test—an absurdly subjective standard that precludes almost any reasonable limit on the so-called "woman's right to choose...

...The development of so-called 4-D ultrasound imaging has undercut pro-abortion efforts to dehumanize the unborn, to depict life in utero as nothing but a lump of unwanted tissue...

...foreign aid money going to international organizations that promote abortion...

...Today, the landscape looks very different indeed...

...Proabortion groups predictably opposed the measure, whose purpose is to fully inform women of the facts about fetal development before they make the potentially life-changing decision to terminate a pregnancy...

...A large number of Americans also recoiled from the defense of a procedure that even some pro-choice advocates likened to infanticide...

...Instead, in too many cases, the false promises of radical feminism led to the empty, unfulfilled, unsatisfying lives of Sex and the City...

...68 percent of high school seniors said abortion is always or usually morally wrong...

...The sexual revolution was supposed to free women to seek professional and personal fulfillment...

...and two-thirds would require parental consent before a minor under 18 could legally obtain an abortion...

...This puts South Dakota on a collision course with Roe v. Wade...

...Today, millions of mothers get their first glimpse of their babies while they are still in the womb...

...Sandra Day O'Connor has been replaced by Samuel Alito...