The US Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which legalizes abortion in the United States, is 35 years old today.

I myself am about 35 1/2 years old. Which means that had I been conceived about 7 months later than I was, my mother could have marched off to the doctor today and legally ended her 9-month pregnancy.

There’s an excellent article from Baptist Press which quizzes you on some of the essentials of Roe v. Wade – what it allowed and what it did not. Check it out – you might be surprised.

Between Two Worlds, Justin Taylor’s blog, has collected a couple of resources for this date which far exceed any that I could put together:

• Roe v. Wade, 35 Years Later: An Interview with Robert P. George – “Robert P. George is a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, and is the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton. His most recent book, coauthored with Christopher Tollefsen, is entitled Embryo: A Defense of Human Life”
• This is Abortion – WARNING: This is a video which includes very graphic images of aborted fetuses.