Capitol Lens: Signs of the Times

By Douglas Graham

Posted January 23, 2012 at 4:37pm

The 2007 March for Life, which moved up the Mall to the Supreme Court, encountered the same sort of damp and icy conditions that prevailed Monday, which was the 39th anniversary of the court’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.

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