Loading ...Key anti-abortion activist dies
flockwoodThe U.S. Supreme Court announced Roe v. Wade on Jan. 23, 1973.
By a 7-2 vote (with Justices Potter and White dissenting), the nation’s high court tossed out the abortion laws of all 50 states.
The decision didn’t ruffle many evangelical feathers — not at first. Roman Catholics almost single-handedly led the fight to repeal the court edict.
No one worked harder than Nellie Gray, who died Monday.
Gray organized the first March for Life in 1974 and led the annual event for nearly three decades.
Gray, a Texan born in 1924, was a convert to Catholicism and an attorney.
August 14th, 2012 at 10:53 am
Why do you use the opposition’s designation “anti-abortion?” She was pro-life. What leftist cause do you use the opponent’s designation to refer to? Fairness is all we are asking from journalists.
August 14th, 2012 at 10:54 am
Someone should point out that of the 7 Republican appointees on the court at that time, 6 of them voted for abortion. With a Republican dominated court since that time, and over 200 cases that could have been heard that might overturn or restrict, they have refused to hear them.
Of course they won’t. If you had an issue that you have run on successfully for 40 years, would you give it up?
August 14th, 2012 at 6:56 pm
May she rest in peace in the arms of the
Lord,
August 15th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Actually, the leftist “opponent’s designation” would be “anti-choice” or “anti-abortion-rights” or “anti-women.”
Those are loaded terms, in my view.
However, there is nothing misleading or unseemly or embarrassing about the label “anti-abortion.”
August 16th, 2012 at 7:21 am
Thank you for good terminology, Frank. The most accurate terms are pro-abortion rights and anti-abortion rights. If anyone wants to describe themselves as pro-life then it’s only fair that they also recognize that the other side can legitimately call itself by its preferred label, pro-choice. And there is really no such thing as pro-abortion.
August 16th, 2012 at 9:37 am
What does it matter what you call it as long as you make a stand. I have often wondered about the statistics concerning genius children being born into the general population and what extent abortion has wiped out the opportunity for this to happen. I wonder what effect this has had on our social structure as a whole.