The Dawning of a New Day.(the U.S. pro-life movement sees encouraging signs)(Editorial)

"Let us not forget that there is always a moment when a moral choice must be made."

Elie Wiesel, from his book, Legends of Our Time.

I may (and do) have many shortcomings as a writer and editor, but writer's block is not one of them. In 30 years of writing hundreds of stories and almost as many opinion pieces, I don't think I've ever paused more than five minutes before beginning to hammer away at the keyboard.

Yet, curiously, in an edition that comes on the heels of as many positive developments as we've witnessed lately, it's been far more difficult to write this editorial than usual. Where to begin? What to include? How can I justify not including what's omitted? More importantly, how does all that we're writing about fit together?

Part of the answer is an option that more and more of you are taking to supplement the invaluable National Right to Life News: checking out "Today's News & Views" at www.nrlc.org. Cyberspace comes as close to providing limitless space as you're going to get. And coming out daily, as it does, means that TN&V can cover breaking news in the same 24-hour cycle. You really should visit NRLC's web site every day!

When our eyes land on the leading figures of the Abortion Establishment, figuratively if not literally huddling in the corner, we see what I would argue can only be described as an identity crisis. For over 30 years, whenever events would turn against the NARALs and the Planned Parenthoods, they knew they could, like children playing a schoolyard game, "return to base." That sense of ultimate security - - a place where they were safe from challenge - - is now under siege.

Think of this haven as if it were constructed in the shape of a triangle. One side consists of rhetoric reducing the unborn child to the status of an almost inanimate collection of purposeless tissue. Nothing there to get excited about.