“America, America, God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.”

America the Beautiful, by Katherine Lee Bates, 1895

Friend,

I hope you are especially proud to be an American as you celebrate Independence Day 2022. Your faithful longtime support of life resulted in overturning a great injustice at last – Roe v. Wade. Now, because of you, America begins a new life in the Dobbs era—one that is finally in concert with our country’s founding values.

In this you join the greatest moral movements in American history: the fight to end slavery; to enfranchise women; to bring equality under the law to every one of our countrymen and women.

In each case, those pressing for an awakening of justice suffered setbacks, discouragement, attacks. In each case, many of those who fought for these noble causes their whole lives did not even live to see their victories. In each case, these movements persisted in calling out the best in Americans, not the worst; they demanded that we live up to the values of our United States Constitution, not allow ourselves to divide in the hope of conquering. In each case, those who fought did not give up, even in the darkest moments.

Those who oppose us now have responded to the new Dobbs era with threats, attacks, lies and even violence, pledging to usurp the rule of law and America’s traditions. In contrast, you should rejoice that your victory for life came through the best of America’s traditions; through prayers, perseverance, and working though the democratic process that put on the high court at last enough justices committed to the Constitution to recognize and undo the terrible wrong that was Roe v. Wade.

It’s a tragedy that so many in the womb had to fall to this injustice before it was rectified. But now it is for them that we rise to the challenge of being people who celebrate this victory but don’t rest in it. Rather, it’s in the name of those we lost that we must fight harder than ever to bring a love of the unborn and their mothers to every state in the union.

Those who mourned the Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973 were prescient when they predicted it would lead to a devaluing of life across the board in our culture, to more violence, brokenness, and further injustices. We now have a chance to change this, to work together to save the unborn, and protect their mothers and help them to flourish with their babies. But this beautiful work will not stop there. Like a pebble thrown into a pond it will inexorably launch a movement that impacts our culture for the better and makes it more compassionate, more just, and more merciful.

Thank you for bringing our movement and America herself to this new day, free from a great weight that has been undermining the best impulses of our country for almost 50 years. Free from Roe v. Wade, and with you, we will call all our fellow citizens to rise to the best of America in the weeks, and months, and years ahead.

I’m so grateful to be with you on this new journey. Happy Independence Day.

“. . . and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.”

For LIFE,

Marjorie Dannenfelser
President, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America

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