And now what a hot mess we have on our hands; it’s easy for a pro-lifer to be discouraged. But we’ve got hope.

Today is the day. This is the week. Three years since the end of Roe v. Wade.

And now what a hot mess we have on our hands.

It’s easy for a pro-lifer to be discouraged. But we’ve got hope. Most fundamentally, if you know it’s not up to us — that we are stewards of the gifts of a Creator, and nothing is hanging on our saving civilization. At the same time, Roe is gone, and that is the fruit of tremendous pro-life work in the vineyards — of daily life, of politics, of marches year after year in the cold of January that barely got a mainstream media mention, or a skewed one, if any.

As our editorial today encourages, celebrate the good of this day thanks to the people of Mississippi who went to the Supreme Court and who have been a good model of helping women beyond ending abortion.

Throughout this afternoon and evening and into tomorrow (there are events marking the anniversary all week, including this weekend in Washington, D.C.), I’ll drop in some friends and pro-life heroes with their insights on this anniversary. I’d encourage you to follow them and their work and organizations. And please, please, please find what’s closest to you and support it with time and treasure — a neighborhood maternity home or pregnancy-care center.

And, of course, there are under-the-radar ways to help young moms and couples.

That, by the way, includes scared immigrants without papers who are pregnant for one reason or another. Let’s make sure Planned Parenthood isn’t the only one willing to take them in — to then kill their babies. A mom who is here in a hotel probably has a story most of us thank God we haven’t had to live.

There are all sorts of ways we can help life and build a culture that isn’t so callous as my New York, which saw so many elderly people die because of reckless government action. And Andrew Cuomo might be the next mayor of New York City, anyway.

I’m beginning to rant, but you can read what I wrote here from the North American Martyrs Shrine in upstate New York on Friday after the British House of Commons vote on assisted suicide for that. (And there’s this video I recorded before leaving the office last night.) For now, I hope you find some of the Corner-visitor insights on the Dobbs anniversary helpful.

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