Abortion Protesters Again Brave Storm

Sun., Jan. 26, 1997

From Staff And Wire Reports

For the second year in a row, anti-abortion activists had to brave a snowstorm for their annual Statehouse rally marking the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

Still, a couple of hundred people turned out for Saturday’s event that featured songs, banners and speeches by a Nampa crisis center worker and Right to Life of Idaho President Julie Katzenberger.

“The bad news is the reign of legal abortion continues. For the moment at least the Supreme Court shows no sign of turning back,” Katzenberger told the crowd.

“The good news is that the reality of abortion seems to be sinking in on more and more people. As that happens, a growing revulsion is sweeping the nation.”

Last Wednesday was the 24th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe vs. Wade, which declared the right to an abortion in the first three months of pregnancy part of the constitutional right to privacy.

And despite what she said have been 34 million abortions performed since then, Katzenberger said she was pleased by news that there has been a steady decline in the number for four years in a row.

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