Questioning Abortion: A Revolution in Reverse.

"The feminist establishment has tended to dismiss such stories [of women grappling with crisis pregnancies and regretting having had abortions] as evidence of patriarchal brainwashing. That explanation may comfort pro-choice feminists who see their ranks dwindling. Yet today's young women are questioning abortion not because they know too little, but because they know too much. They have paid the price for the modern feminist embrace of counterfeit liberation. Now they are standing up to demand the real thing-whether or not their elders approve." -- From "A Revolution in Reverse" by Colleen Carroll Campbell, Lay Witness Magazine, November/December 2007

"Look, Erin ... I understand. This right here ... this could be the most important decision you'll ever make. And if you choose to give this a chance, I will be there with you ... every day. You won't be the only one living with it. 100%, anything you need, anything you ask, I will be there." -- From the February 8 episode of Friday Night Lights, where Jason pledges his support for Erin who is pregnant with his child

"... [W]omen are questioning abortion not because they know too little, but because they know too much." In a mere 16 words Ms. Campbell has latched on to a great truth, one that is turning the abortion debate on its head.

In the other editorial on this page (which talks about the movie 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) and in an editorial in the February NRL News (which analyzed the surprise hit Juno), I write about the power of art to rip away the canopy of lies that has hidden the ugly, dehumanizing reality of human abortion. In the former case, a baby dies, almost literally before the audience's eyes. In the latter, the teenager almost stumbles into a life-affirming decision.

While Juno makes us feel good, 4 months leaves a horrid taste in the viewer's mouth. The Abortion Establishment may wrap the "right" to abortion in gauzy language about "choice." But that nonsense cannot survive a close-up of a dead baby, partially wrapped in a towel.

There are other signs that the tide is turning against the death peddlers. Last year an amendment to an appropriations bill sponsored by pro-life Congressman Mike Pence (R-In.) to deny family planning funds to Planned Parenthood ...