It has become a staple of baseball lore, and I was reminded of it while watching Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby on television during the All-Star Game festivities.
In 1932, the great New York Yankees slugger, Babe Ruth, is said to have “called his shot.” Some accounts say Ruth stepped up to the plate, pointed to the outfield wall at Wrigley Field, and, moments later, proceeded to hit a towering home run into the stands just above where he had pointed. The Yankees went on to win that game and the World Series.
Today, it is our team, the pro-life movement, which finds itself at bat. The election of President Donald Trump, the coming remake of the post-Kennedy Supreme Court with an expected solid 5-4 conservative majority, the presence of pro-life majorities in the House and Senate, all mean that we are better positioned than we have been in years to step to the plate and hit a home run by passing legislation to prevent unborn babies from being killed that can be signed into law and upheld.
