Changes in abortion language, laws seen as pro-life progress
Dr. Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life (CNA/EWTN News).- Amid changing abortion rhetoric and significant legislative advances, a group of legal experts in the nation’s capital said that they are confident in the future of the pro-life movement. “In this epic struggle,” said Dr. Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, “my money’s on the baby.” Hosting a Jan. 24 symposium in Washington, D.C., Yoest and other speakers discussed changes in rhetoric surrounding the abortion debate, as well as growing legislative efforts in the 40 years since the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision established a “right” to abortion nationwide. Much of the discussion focused on changes to tactics used by abortion advocates over the years. Yoest explained that while pro-life advocates have been consistent in delivering a message of “defending life,” the abortion movement has changed the way it framed its arguments numerous times. In the 1970s, she s...