Contending for Truth

I found out that Roe v. Wade was overturned from a text from a pro-life group that I have supported in the past. I was surprised at the emotions that almost overcame me. Tears of joy came to my eyes, and when I called to tell my husband, he was surprised he got emotional too. Abortion has been federally legal my entire life, and most of my husband’s life. I was born two years after Roe v. Wade. It’s always made me angry to think that a body of nine men - nine justices - passed this down to my generation. To me, abortion is the barbaric act of ending the life of an innocent child, an innocent human being. Whether you believe that the life that was terminated was viable outside the womb or not, or nothing more than a clump of cells, it is a human life nonetheless through all stages, and that is what’s being snuffed out. For years I have heard the argument that pro-life people only care about keeping the child alive to birth, and then that’s it - they don’t care about the mother and her s...