The pro-life movement is a much younger crowd than pro-abortion, now graying and cranky. It was so wonderful today to hear all those high school girls speaking out at the March for Life in Washington, DC.
I'm not sure I knew or understood what abortion was when I was in high school, and maybe not even in college. It might have been the Sherry Finkbine case of thalidomide (1962) that first brought it to my attention. That drug (a teratogenic sedative like alcohol) was not legal in the U.S., but she had gotten it in Europe for her 5th pregnancy. So her story was on all the news (3 channels, at that time). Therapeutic abortion was legal in the U.S., but the hospital feared bad publicity and backed out after it was scheduled, so she went to Sweden.
Here's an article written by a Thalidomide survivor, Frederick Dove. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15536544
There have been law suits and spotty compensation from the chemical companies, but as they age, they require more care for their disabilities, and their parents are either dead, or need care themselves.
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