Last week I was listening to some pro-abortion people talking on CNN about the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

They also were talking about how horrible it would be if W would appoint a conservative judge or two to the Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade would be - gasp - overturned.

Hey, to me it's a case of the old "what goes around comes around."

For nearly 200 years abortion was illegal in this country. Back in 1973, the makeup of the Supreme Court was such that abortion became legal - constitutionally protected, in fact.

If 30 years and 39 million abortions later the makeup of the Supreme Court changes again, well, I guess all I have to say is, boo-hoo.

I mean really, how horrible would it be if the right to kill unborn children was taken away?

I hear the pro-abortion folks talk about a woman's right to choose, a woman's reproductive rights and a woman's dignity.

Dignity?

I guess I never really considered abortion dignified.

Nonetheless, amid all the talk of the rights of women, lost is the rights of the unborn.

In this country, the unborn have no rights. They are alive. They are human beings, but they have no rights. Not even the most basic right.

The wonders of technology have started to turn things around a bit. Things like magnetic resonance imaging and ultra-sound have taken a bit of the shine off abortion.

A recent survey notes that nearly 90 percent of women who are considering abortion change their minds when given the opportunity to see their unborn child's ultrasound image.

Why?

Because suddenly it's not just a mass of tissue. It's not just a clump of indistinguishable goo.

It's living. Its heart is beating. It has arms, legs, hands and feet. Even at 10 weeks, you can tell if it's a boy or a girl. It is a human being.

This technology actually bothers some pro-abortion types. They say showing an abortion-minded mother an ultrasound of her fetus is a form of intimidation.

I say it should be a requirement.

One pro-abortion columnist noted that the 39 million women who had abortions since Roe had "emotions ranging from anxiety to relief."

The columnist forgot to mention the pre-eminent emotion that women who have had abortions feel - regret.

More than 90 percent of women who have had abortions later admit to regretting the decision.

And you know what really annoys me? It's the name game surrounding this issue.

Everybody's either pro-choice or pro-life. Why aren't we just pro-abortion or anti-abortion?

And I don't buy into the "I'm not in favor of abortion, but I think it should be legal" argument.

That's a semantic copout. It's like saying you're not in favor of theft, but you think it should be legal.

You're either for it or against it in my mind.

If the Supreme Court strikes down Roe, so be it.

Perhaps in another 30 years a more liberal Supreme Court will reinstate it.

But at least in the interim, millions of unborn children will have been afforded the most basic human right. A right stripped from millions before them. The right to life. [[In-content Ad]]