A Successor Generation.

If I do my job properly, every issue of National Right to Life News provides at least a glimpse of the reasons why we are moving to the day when Roe v. Wade takes its rightful position alongside Dred Scott and other discarded High Court decisions. But the June 2005 edition is so full of enlightening stories that it acts like a floodlight illuminating the constellation of forces that are moving us in the direction of a post-Roe world.

Consider just four examples, the common denominators of which are the triumph of truth and the flowering of a successor generation that will carry on the work begun by us old war horses.

With impeccable scholarship, Dr. Randall K. O'Bannon thoroughly debunks the two-sided lie that abortions increased under President Bush (they've actually gone down) and decreased under President Clinton (the momentum from Bush One carried over, but the longer Clinton was in office, the slower was the decline). His article appears on page 25 and is the model of how to unclog a public discussion stopped up with lies.

Much of this anti-Bush propaganda, it must be noted, is in the service of pro-abortion Democrats who are flailing about, desperately trying to neutralize the abortion issue. What this assault on people's intelligence reveals is the utter contempt pro-abortionists have for the average non-partisan.

In their insincere yammering, they believe, like the alchemists of old, that they have found the Philosopher's Stone, a linguistic device that can transmute baseless rhetoric about finding "common ground" into electoral gold. Or, to put it in a more mundane fashion, they have persuaded themselves (as a journalist once put it) that all anti-life politicians need do is to "wrap a liberal position in a conservative answer."

Second, the page one story that details the fight over federal funding of embryonic stem cell research demonstrates yet again that proponents simply will not take yes for an answer. Some 58 different diseases have been treated with stem cells taken from a host of non-embryonic sources.

But even though not a single disease in humans has been successfully treated with embryonic stem cells, only stem cells that require the death of human embryos get rave reviews. Highly--and I do mean highly--speculative ruminations about "potential" routinely triumph over performance.