The news of tomorrow: “Some time this March the 100 millionth abortion in the United States since the Roe v. Wade decision was performed, assuming the so-called O’Bannon model used by the National Right to Life Council to determine the number of abortions is correct.”

The news of today: we see a Planned Parenthood worker having a laugh about the day’s catch of aborted fetuses being “all mixed-up together in a bag.” (Around the 10 minute mark of the video David French linked here—and warning: if you go a bit further into the video, the contents of that bag get laid out in casserole-like dish upon an examination table.)

Well, I don’t know if 2054 will be the year when the 100 millionth abortion-by-constitutional-right will occur. A lot depends on whether the current decrease in the abortion rate per year continues or reverses. And while more unlikely than otherwise, our politics could take a turn that would overturn Roe/Casey—you’d better prepare yourself for the fact that that really could happen if the next president supports originalism–which would push that date back another 25-35 years or so, assuming enough states would take substantial actions to ban, limit, and discourage abortions. It’s hard to hope for more at this point, and in any case impossible to escape the shame of what has already occurred. As of January 22, 2015, the National Right to Life Council’s “O’Bannon number” was 57,726,169.

I also don’t know how high or wide a pyramid of 5 million stacked casserole dishes each containing 20 aborted fetuses would be, but we really ought to set aside some room on the National Mall for such a monument now.