By
Ben Johnson
National
Black Robe Regiment
As
Missouri state legislators grappled with whether to extend the waiting period
for an abortion to 72 hours, a Planned Parenthood volunteer had a simple
message for them: “Abortion is sacred.”
Those
words, emblazoned on a sign held by Juleigh Snell on the south lawn of the
state capital in Jefferson City, spoke for many of those present at the “Stand
With Missouri Women” rally. Snell, who describes herself as
an atheist, drove 150 miles from her home in Alton, Illinois – the hometown of
Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly – for the demonstration on the capitol
steps.
“Our
health care, our bodies, our choices,” Snell told The Missourian at one of two
rallies designed to sway lawmakers.
Pivoting
from its previous depiction of abortion as a necessary evil, the abortion
industry and its political stalwarts have increasingly begun describing
abortion as a positive, even holy, event.
Last
August, Wendy Davis said she launched the 11-hour filibuster that thrust her
into the limelight, because “sometimes you have to take a stand on sacred
ground.”
Two
months earlier, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi referred to the issue of
abortion as “sacred ground” while deflecting a question from a reporter from
The Weekly Standard.
Topless
protesters with the group Femen chanted “abortion is sacred” while attacking
the Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela, in February.
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