Before Dobbs: What the Pro-Life Movement Saw, Said & Did before Roe v. Wade was Overturned

by J. Pepper Bryars

In the summer of 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Dobbs v. Jackson that it had made a mistake in the early 1970s when it found in Roe v. Wade that the constitution guaranteed a right to abortion.

Everyone but the faithful, and the fearful, were stunned.

In the years that will follow, Americans will surely come to doubt the wisdom of the ruling, to doubt the need to have ended abortion, and maybe even to doubt the fact that over 64 million unborn Americans died before Roe was overturned.

Those who can remember must not forget, and must forever remind those with eyes to see and ears to hear how things were …

Before Dobbs.

162 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 16, 2022

About the author

J. Pepper Bryars began his career writing for military newspapers while serving in the Army National Guard, and he received the Army Commendation Medal for his deployment to Hungary in support of the peace-enforcement mission in Bosnia.

Pepper then became a newspaper reporter, spent time as an aide to a congressman and governor, and served as a presidential appointee in the Defense Department. He was also a strategic communication advisor to U.S. military forces operating in Europe, Africa, and Latin America. He was twice awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Exceptional Public Service, once for service in Baghdad and a second time for work at the Pentagon.

His weekly opinion column is published in the Birmingham News, Mobile Press-Register, Huntsville Times, the Mississippi Press, and at AL.com.