FROM THE PRESIDENT 2004 IS A PIVOTAL YEAR.

I will remain in this position [as NARAL president] through the end of April 2004 so that I can work with our members and allies to lead the March for Freedom of Choice that will bring a historic number of pro-choice Americans to Washington, D.C.

My retirement from NARAL Pro-Choice America does not mean I am withdrawing from pro-choice activism. Quite the contrary: I will now be able to devote myself fully to the most pressing challenge our movement faces today: electing a pro-choice President in 2004. The next four years will almost certainly see at least two Supreme Court vacancies. If George W. Bush is allowed to fill those seats, it could mean the end of reproductive privacy and the end of Roe v. Wade. I intend to do everything I can do to see that does not happen.

NARAL Pro-Choice America's true impact is measured not in dollars raised, elections won or [judicial] nominations defeated, but in the countless women whose lives have been saved and children whose lives have been enriched by our work.

--From Kate Michelmana statement announcing her retirement from the presidency of NARAL

Ms. Michelman's retirement message not only lays out NARAL's political program for the year 2004 but also summarizes the pro-abortionists' willful moral confusion and blindness to the facts.

Several years ago, Ms. Michelman could no longer suppress what, deep down, she knows to be the truth. "Abortion is a bad thing," she told an interviewer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her fellow pro-abortionists reacted with outrage to this deviation from the party line. Ms. Michelman recanted and then tried to deny that she had spoken the truth in the first place, but the Philadelphia Inquirer stood by its reporter; there was a tape recording.

"Abortion is a bad thing" because it kills babies--over 44 million since the legalization of abortion in 1973. Have these "children's lives been enriched" by the pro-abortionists' work? "Abortion is a bad thing" because it devastates women--emotionally and spiritually and, all too often, physically.