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 LifeSiteNews The Hyatt Regency at Capitol Hill on Thursday looked a bit like a college dormitory. Teens and young twenty-somethings were everywhere----draped over chairs in the lobby, milling around in the hallways, talking, laughing and having fun. They came to Washington to participate in today's March for Life, but Thursday was 'their' day. It kicked off at 8:30 in the morning with a well-attended prayer vigil at a D.C. Planned Parenthood, and continued with a three-hour youth rally at the Hyatt. A cavernous basement level meeting hall was filled beyond capacity with young pro-life activists, many wearing shirts that said, "I survived Roe v. Wade ... Roe v. Wade will not survive me." Survival of Roe was a major theme for most of the rally's speakers, most of whom were born after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that made abortion legal.
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 HLI World Watch The 40 year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court abortion decision Roe v. Wade brings us to a biblical number fraught with symbolic importance. Psalm 95 laments: "Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and I said, 'It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.'" Those laboring in the "pro-life vineyard" may certainly be justified in looking on these past years as a time of wandering in the desert with relatively few tangible results. But the remarkable achievements of literally thousands of pro-life counseling centers that have saved so many lives from abortion must be acknowledged. It remains true, however, that progress towards making abortion not only illegal but unthinkable remains painfully slow. We can also see these four decades as a period of purification and preparation. It is up to us now to conquer the promised land of a civilization that is rooted in love and respect for all our brothers and sisters. Today selfishness and the convenience of the stronger are enshrined as "rights."
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|  KHOU.com Shontae Minor and Khristian Rohena welcomed four more children into the world Tuesday morning. At around 7 a.m., Minor gave birth to quadruplets----two sets of twin boys. The couple named the quadruplets: Yandel Louis, Yariel Raphael, Orion Rico and Ryan Nico. Minor said early on doctors suggested she abort one set of twins. "I was depressed for a while, but I was like, 'God gave me these kids for a reason, so I'm not going to abort,'" Minor said. Minor reached this multiple-birth pregnancy without fertility treatments. Twins run on both sides of their family, but the chances of what's happened to them are one in a million.
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