Resilience of the Pro-life Movement: Post Roe v. Wade

After the ruling of Roe v. Wade, Pro-life supporters were faced with a decision; to keep fighting for fetal rights, or to succumb to the secularization movement that had been building for the past fifty years in America. Even under great scrutiny, the pro - life movement continued to fight using the Human life amendment, political action committees, and working tirelessly to elect pro-life supporters to government positions. The National Right to Life organization was originally made up of small, pro-life groups scattered throughout the nation. The organization was supported mainly by the Catholic institution but began to see leaders rise up from the protestant denomination and therefore gained more followers. Wherever abortion was being debated, members of the Right to Life Organization were present, fighting tirelessly for the unborn. They slowly gained support and were beginning to see changes in American views toward abortion. The organization wanted not only for abortion to be illegal, but for the courts to recognize that life began at conception. Undoubtedly, the Right to Life organization was not satisfied with the Supreme Court ruling that abortion was a

If passed, Pro-lifers believed that this amendment would put a total end to abortion and give rights to the life of the child beginning at conception (212). Pro - lifers also hoped this amendment would slow the idea of euthanasia of aged and sick and validate that “life is the gift of God and not of the State” (213). The NRLC, and other pro-lifers, worked vigorously to obtain support for their amendment. A major way of acquiring tangible support to take before Congress was through the Committee of Ten Million. The original goal was to have Ten million letters of support from Catholic priests and other pro-life activist supporting the Human Life