Today is a day to rejoice.
For over two generations, America has suffered under an institution that prioritized the death of innocent children over the heroic sacrifices—indeed, to put it more precisely, the hidden, dearly bought joys—of parenthood, planned and unplanned. Today, this disordered state of affairs, at least in the legal realm, has come to an end.
I exhort all of you, our readers and dear friends, to take on today a spirit of what I’ll call solemn joy. We must rejoice at the fall of Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and all their bitter, twisted fruit over the decades. This is one of the few times when we can say with joy that we’re entering into a new age, where the fight to protect our most innocent, most helpless brothers and sisters becomes a bit easier.
But let us not forget the great multitude among our neighbors still wounded by the last fifty years. We have generations born and progressed into adulthood who have known nothing but an America where abortion is—was!—legal throughout all nine months of pregnancy. We still have the human wreckage wrought by the unspeakably evil decision of the Supreme Court in 1973—not just children killed, but relationships severed, suspicion and distrust sown among families, enmity enmeshed between the sexes, and the wholesale debasement of God’s most blessed sacrament of marriage.
In other words, my dear friends, let us rejoice, because an imposing monument to the culture of death is toppled today. And let us do so solemnly, with joy set hard in our jaws, because today we begin anew the hard work to enshrine the choice Moses mandated to our ancestors in Exodus 30:19: “Will you choose the Lord to make you prosperous and give you a long life? Or will he put you under a curse and kill you? Choose life!”
Today, let us renew our commitment to be a light unto our nation and our world, in the spirit of Moses our forefather, ushering our countrymen to stamp out the curse of abortion and choose the one choice worthy of our Creator: Life.