“Our work now is just starting: we must help and support moms, dads, and babies. Love them all—and in so doing making abortion unimaginable,” said Karen Swallow Prior, Research Professor of English and Christianity & Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and long-time pro-life activist.
Director of the Land Center for Cultural Engagement Daniel Darling said, “Today is a great day in America. After almost a half century of relentless advocacy on behalf of the most vulnerable members of our society, this is the beginning of the end of abortion in America.”
Nevertheless, pro-choice advocates are anticipated to protest, and some are fearing that those protests may turn violent.
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“The Department of Homeland Security is communicating with Catholic Churches and pregnancy centers, telling them to be prepared for a ‘Night of Rage’ by pro-abortion groups pledging ‘extreme violence’ the night of the Dobbs decision,” tweeted Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action, a pro-life advocacy group, on Thursday.
Since Justice Alito’s opinion draft was leaked, churches and crisis pregnancy centers have experienced an uptick in protests and vandalization. Pro-choice activists have also protested outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh even becoming the subject of an assassination attempt.
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“Their threats will not win. The pro-life movement is stronger than ever: determined to care for both mother & child, to provide the networks of support that young families need, & to fight for legal protections for the preborn. We will not back down. We will not be intimidated,” Rose went on to say.
, the United States Supreme Court ruled to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, thereby revoking abortion as a constitutionally protected right and sending the decision on abortion legislation back to the individual states. ){kind=link}