The Very Face of Extremism.

If you are the usual pro-abortion advocacy groups, what do you do when abortion rates continue to drop, pro-life legislation is passed in Congress, young people of America are moving into the pro-life camp in droves, and the American public shows clear signs that it is finally taking notice that supporters of abortion are the very face of extremism?

If you are Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Feminist Majority, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, the ACLU, or the Center for Reproductive Rights, you put together a "March for Women's Lives" and demonstrate to all who actually see you that you are every bit as radically out of the mainstream as pro-lifers say you are!

Like cicadas, which appear every 17 years on the East Coast, pro-abortionists surfaced April 25 in Washington, D.C., in large numbers for the first time in a dozen years. Their mission? To try in vain to convince the public that they are a powerful force that can defeat President George W. Bush in November.

But a more honest title for their gathering would have been, "The March for the Bottom Line." Quite frankly, as most of us know, they are protecting a multi-billion dollar a year industry which cares little about women's lives and none about the lives of tens of millions of unborn women.

My guess is that the leaders of these groups understood that history is no longer moving in their direction. That is why they threw caution (and truth) to the wind and said anything that they believed would get their supporters to act.

The rhetoric from the podium on the National Mall was not only vile and vulgar, it was so angry that it honestly approached irrationality. Especially infuriating was that they made an extra-special appeal to Hispanic women and Latino families.

They beckoned us to believe that to be "pro-choice" is to be truly pro-family, pro-child, pro-woman, and have the best interests of the Hispanic community at heart. Did Hispanics buy this speechifying?