Christian Research Network correspondent Marsha West reminds us that 40 years ago today, Roe v. Wade became the law of the land and legal abortion became a way of life in America. “On a cold soggy January day in 1973,” she writes, “people gathered throughout America to celebrate women’s newfound freedom to abort their babies. No longer would the government have the right to intrude in ‘private family matters.’ On that same day others mourned as they contemplated the Court’s shocking decision to legalize infanticide.”