Short Pro-Life Reflections on an Important Anniversary

By Jonathan Rogers

Today, April 9th is the anniversary of the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. General Robert E. Lee’s decision to surrender honorably helped conclude four years of the costliest fighting in American history. The Civil War put an end to slavery, and for that, we can all be thankful.

NRLC’s headquarters is located directly across the street from Ford’s Theater. At the moment I write this the street outside is a throng of spring tourists, here for the famous cherry blossoms, to see a bit of history, to pay their respects to the man who authored the Emancipation Proclamation.

I can’t help but enjoy the symbolism. In a real sense, we are Lincoln’s heirs.

No one today thinks slavery a good thing. I anticipate a day when the same is said of abortion.

A century and a half ago, a significant minority of society was written off as so much property, unprotected by the rule of law, merely because of the accident of their skin color. Today, a significant minority of society is written off as so much property and ignored by the rule of law on the mere accident of not having been yet born.

We take up were Lincoln left off. We’re thankful for this day of peace, and dedicated to fulfilling the promise of the Gettysburg Address.

Lincoln may have meant the phase “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom” in a metaphorical sense. But we take it quite literally.

Jonathan Rogers is Field Coordinator for National Right to Life.

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