When Roe v. Wade was promulgated by the Supreme Court, Mary Eberstadt’s mother, a nurse, came home from work with a silver pin with two baby feet on her uniform. She and her colleagues were wearing them to signify their refusal to participate in abortions. They weren’t following the pope or bishops’ orders. They were simply following the science. They didn’t have the sonograms we have now, but they knew what happens in a pregnant woman’s womb.
In the first issue of National Review after Roe v. Wade finally ended, Eberstadt writes about the indoctrination campaign that led to where we are today — the insistence that women need abortion to be free. That somehow it is basic health care. Generations now have come to accept lies: “Violence toward the unborn is a human right. Mothers and children are natural enemies. Career comes first. My body, my choice.”
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