And down will come baby . . .

Family Research Council: There are times in the pro-life movement when words are just inadequate. Yesterday, when the Guttmacher Institute announced a spike in U.S. abortions, reporters hurried to file their stories. And while most of them managed to communicate the data--almost none conveyed the loss. Instead of reflecting on the 1,212,350 unique members of society that America will never know, the headlines all minimized the tragedy that is 'choice.' Papers from the Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post explained the news with the sensitivity of a sports column. It's 'just 1%,' the Journal reported, or a 'slight rise,' said the AP. Factually, they're both right. But in terms of casualties--real human victims--this 'slight rise' means that our country dug 6,150 new [additional] graves in 2008. That's more than the entire student population at Yale, Princeton, Brown, or Dartmouth.