By Dave Andrusko

Nothing like a new year to get people to make lists of resolutions and charter hopes for the future. As you'd expect, "A Wish List for the Pro-Choice Movement's Next 10 Years" would mean no future for untold additional millions of unborn children.

Written by Amanda Marcotte, the article appears on the pro-abortion blog, RH Reality Check. It begins with a gloomy retrospect: "After all, the past decade was a pretty bleak one. The pro-choice movement didn't advance the ball down the field, and even our defensive maneuvers didn't work so well at times."

But that was then, and this is now. "[I]f we stop playing not to lose and start playing to win, I suspect we might send the right wing into retreat and actually gain ground in improving women's lives and the sexual health of a nation."

There is lots of the usual "right-wingers-are-idiots" filler, and recommendations for solving various problems that are outside our purview or losers. The two items most directly related to our concerns are Marcotte's determination to extirpate the Hyde Amendment--thus multiplying by millions the number of dead babies--and to multiply the number of abortionists--thus extirpating what's left of the Hippocratic Oath.

In that upside down logic that befuddles the pro-abortion imagination, it is "justice" to ensure that more babies of poorer women are killed by abortion paid for with federal dollars. Never mind that the American public by overwhelming numbers disagree, whatever their opinion may be about abortion in general.

So, how do you get more physicians to trade in their stethoscopes for curettages? Well, you got "to find a way to get people with the right attitudes and the right skills into the business." Ok, how do you accomplish that?

"Programs encouraging bright, young pro-choice people into medical school to train as ob-gyns who perform abortions is a good start," Marcotte writes. And besides teaching budding physicians how to kill babies, appeal (sort of) to their nobler side: "highlight the dangers of self-abortion would also help."

If that's not enough, "Perhaps a scholarship program for medical students who train to be abortion providers, or a debt forgiveness program for those doctors that provide abortion?" And that's just for starters! Marcotte avows that there are "endless possibilities."

But we, too, believe in possibilities –- "infinite possibilities" –- the name of the marvelous six-minute DVD that documents the journey of the unborn child from conception to birth. [www.nrlc.org/InfinitePossibilities.asp]

And pro-lifers have a wish list, only ours does not pit mother against her unborn child. Our wish list begins with the fervent desire that because hearts soften and laws change, all unborn babies are given a chance to reach the ten-year mark.

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