By Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus.

For decades, abortion purveyors have gone to extraordinary lengths to ignore, trivialize, and cover up the battered baby victim. They’ve aggressively fostered a culture of denial, disrespect, and bias against babies.

The United States Supreme Court’s 7-2 majority in 1973 infamously wrote in Roe v. Wade—that: ‘‘We need not resolve the difficult question of when human life begins.’’ (Page 159)

Sidestepping that fundamental question and giving absolutely no benefit of the doubt to the innate value, dignity and humanity of an unborn child, the Court went on to legalize and facilitate abortion on demand throughout pregnancy.

No pro-lifer would ever underestimate the massive impact the overthrow of Roe v. Wade has meant to American culture. Dobbs made what many thought was perhaps years away a reality. At last, on June 24, 2022, the reign of error and terror unleashed on January 22, 1973 was ended.