It is a bitter irony that even as we are enlarging our commitment to human equality in many areas, we are turning our backs on it in others.

As I was coming out of a screening of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, as shaken up by the experience as I imagine everyone who has seen the film must be, I accidentally fell into step behind a couple she in her 20s or early 30s, he considerably older, both elegantly dressed who were making their reaction to what they had seen a matter for public remark.

In the past three years, at least five pregnant women, along with their babies, have been killed in Canada in violent attacks.

The question is simple and blunt: "If abortion is criminalized, what should the penalty be for a woman who has one?"

Illegitimacy has risen despiteindeed, because oflegal abortion.

Since 1966, Professor Raymond Dennehy has bravely accepted the challenge of debating abortion advocates at the University of California at Berkeley.

"Terri, are you sitting down?"the nurse asked over the telephone. "We got your test results back and they were positive. You're pregnant."

The abortion debate is back. The indomitable Ms. Choice is being hectored and picketed by Ms. Right-To-Life.

Four justices on the Supreme Court have accepted all the premises for a constitutional right to infanticide. They lack only the nerve to take their reasoning to its logical conclusion.

A photograph that accompanied the top headline on the Drudge Report at one point Monday looked very familiar to me. It showed two tiny feet peeking through the fingers of a hand, and I thought at first that it was a typical anti-abortion photo that marchers carry at pro-life marches.