Every January, on or near the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision to legalize abortion, WORLD reviews pro-life progress and regress over the previous year.
Buildings with baggage
Groups are turning old abortion centers into pro-life spaces, but the facilities’ horrific histories are difficult for many to overcome
Issue date: Jan. 18, 2020
Against the tide
African-American leaders embrace abortion even as it decimates the black community, but black pro-life activists are fighting for black lives
Issue date: Jan. 19, 2019
Hope for the unchosen
Chances for life seem slim for thousands of tiny embryos frozen in storage or subjected to questionable tests meant to weed out ‘misfits.’ But some advocates and families are on a mission to rescue these unborn babies from an uncertain fate
Issue date: Jan. 20, 2018
Bitter pills
Increasingly popular but as risky as ever, chemical abortion raises new challenges for the pro-life movement
Issue date: Jan. 21, 201
A time for plain speaking
Planned Parenthood benefits from a culture that disguises what the organization truly is and does
Issue date: Jan. 23, 2016
Survival of the despised
America at its best follows the philosophy of Emma Lazarus over that of Margaret Sanger
Issue date: Jan. 24, 2015
40 years and millions of lives
Roe v. Wade continues its grim business, but pro-life activity is saving lives, too
Issue date: Jan. 26, 2013
Full of life
Revitalized by young activists and growing support, the pro-life movement faces new tensions
Issue date: Jan. 28, 2012
Red zone defense
With our most-observed secular holiday, Super Bowl day, coming this year on Feb. 6, we’re hearing a lot about what happens in “the red zone,” the part of the football field that extends from the 20-yard line to the end zone. Meanwhile, abortion proponents are defending their own bloody red zone against a reinvigorated pro-life movement
Issue date: Jan. 29, 2011
Back to the present
Understanding abortion in the past will help us fight it today
Issue date: Jan. 17, 2009
The plots thicken
As Roe v. Wade turns 35, some in Hollywood are changing their minds about “choice,” and it’s showing up on the silver screen
Issue date: Jan. 12, 2008
Just how pro are these pro-lifers?
The Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion turns 34 years old this month, just as seven pro-life Democrats join the new majority on Capitol Hill. Here’s what the power shift could mean for the pre-born
Issue date: Jan. 20, 2007
What women want
For 33 years many American women have believed that what’s legal must be OK, only to have their consciences, moments or decades later, tell them differently
Issue date: Jan. 21, 2006
Delta force
Mississippi pro-life activists’ success in fighting abortion shows not only can some battles be won at the state level, but it can be done with broad bipartisan support
Issue date: Jan. 22, 2005
Lawmakers, lawbreakers
Even though churches have lost significant influence over society, they do at least retain authority over their own members. A look at churches that are considering the exercise of discipline over pro-abortion politicians
Issue date: Jan. 17, 2004
30 years’ war
As Roe turns 30, are medical facts and a determined pro-life movement causing legalized abortion to show its age, or is it just becoming more entrenched? While others debate the question, abortion opponents quietly legislate, litigate, and demonstrate compassion
Issue date: Jan. 18, 2003
Holding the line
Senate shifts, terrorist attacks, and biological warfare against the sanctity of human life leave the question: Whatever happened to the abortion issue?
Issue date: Jan. 19, 2002
Leaving limbo
More kids exit foster care for permanent adoptive families, but pro-lifers hope for more.
Issue date: Jan. 13, 2001
Roe2000
Last week was one that pushed Christian and conservative journalists and pro-life leaders to remember biblical injunctions against envy
Issue date: Jan. 22, 2000
Abortion: A right that’s wrong
Even as the abortion culture sinks itself deeper into the fabric of American life, pro-lifers are preparing to mourn the 26th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision, several factors continue to chip away at its acceptability. Political challenges, cultural argument, and compassionate alternatives are slowly but surely helping to form the consensus that abortion is wrong. A look back at abortion in America since the last dark Roe anniversary
Issue date: Jan. 16, 1999
One step forward
... and one step back: Pro-lifers still face challenges as new as was Roe vs. Wade in 1973
Issue date: Jan. 17, 1998
Life worth living
The January 22, 1973, Roe vs. Wade ruling has been a death sentence for 30 million-plus preborn infants in the United States. For 24 years babies have died for any reason and no reason. But in the 1990s, with the development of new genetic tests that can more safely and less expensively diagnose genetic disorders in utero, many young humans are at risk for one very specific reason: They have Down Syndrome
Issue date: Jan. 18, 1997