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Don’t Blame Trump: The Pro-Life Movement Is a Revolution that Might Take 100 Years, by John Zmirak – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By John Zmirak, The Stream, July 10, 2024

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 10 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

When Roe v. Wade got overturned in 2022, we felt the same way as when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. This vast monolith of evil, caked with innocent blood, now lay in heaps of rubble. As someone who joined the pro-life movement at age 11 — waving off my mother’s fearful objections and going door to door collecting signatures — it was one of my happiest moments. No other political issue is half as important in God’s own eyes.

It’s also paramount for us as a country. It’s no exaggeration to say that legalized abortion has hung over our land like a generational curse in the same way that slavery did. So don’t blame people for doing a victory dance when they heard about the Emancipation Proclamation — or when they heard about Dobbs v. Jackson.

But has the curse really lifted?

We all know that it took two more years of fighting, then the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, to finally free the last American slaves after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. And it took another full 100 years for black people to receive equal treatment under the law. Did we really expect that the child-hungry demons behind abortion would be exorcised through the first drops of holy water? ….

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