Tide Turning on Abortion?

The 1973 decision in the now infamous Roe vs. Wade case began the era of legalized abortion here in the U.S. Recently, however, events seem to be pointing towards a slow but admirable trend to reverse this decision.

First, of course, we have the new appointees to the Supreme Court: Roberts and Alito. Both of these men are unlikely to demonstrate the activist tendencies that led to the Roe vs. Wade decision. Assuming Roberts votes like his predecessor Rehnquist, Justice Alito should prove to be the swing vote on future abortion cases that pro-lifers didn't have in Sandra Day O'Conner.

Furthermore, it appears that an important case on partial-birth abortion is about to come before the Supreme Court. This could be a landmark case in the fight against legalized abortion and the Roe vs. Wade precedent. Indeed, it seems that at a state level things have already begun to pick up. Take this recent ban out of the South Dakota Legislature. It seems that in South Dakota, pending the, expected, Governor's signature, abortion will become illegal except in cases where the mother's life is at risk.

The pro-life movement seems to be gathering steam in the political arena, which might mean that the elimination of all abortion, except in cases of rape and when the mother's life is in danger, is in America's future on a not-so-distant horizon.