Commentary
There were times over the last 50 years when some pro-lifers felt they would never see Roe v. Wade overturned and the right to life again recognized by government.
Many who never doubted didn’t live to see this day. They had marched in the cold streets of Washington, D.C., in January on Roe’s anniversary. These never-doubters included Nellie Gray, founder of the March for Life, Phyllis Schlafly, the ardent anti-ERA and pro-life advocate, Dr. Mildred Jefferson, the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School who also drew attention to the disproportionate number of aborted black babies, and Justice Antonin Scalia, who consistently argued that Roe was wrongly decided….