March for Life 2010
By E M Barner | Friday, January 22nd, 2010 | PolicyToday marked the 37th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that, together with its companion case, forced abortion-on-demand on this country.
This past year, 52 million legal abortions later, more Americans now identify themselves as “pro-life” than “pro-choice” (for the first time since Gallup started polling on this question).
When the Supreme Court legalized abortion, justices claimed not to know when life began. Today, most people have watched a live sonogram or seen a video of a sonogram showing a beating heart at five weeks, discernable features at twelve weeks and, perhaps, sexual characteristics at twenty weeks of pregnancy.
I was on the mall today, as a crowd stretching to 12th street gathered to express one sentiment: that the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness should be recognized and protected from conception to natural death.
You can watch the pre-March rally on CSPAN. From my observation, the crowd was the largest its been in many years. Many marchers were there for the first time, energized and concerned by the Obama administration. Others have been coming for twenty years or more. I am one of those – having first marched beside my sister’s stroller when I was just five years old.
For many, the March is deeply personal. With deep emotion in her voice, Georgette Forney, co-founder of the Silent No More awareness campaign, told of the many men and women who regret their abortions.
Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers introduced the marchers to her baby son, Cole (pictured). Cole has a genetic abnormality called Downs Syndrome. Precious people with Downs used to be a normal part of our communities. But now, as Rep. McMorris Rodgers reminded us, 90% of babies like Cole are aborted.
Besides McMorris Rodgers, 20 other Members of Congress spoke to the gathered crowd. No Virginia Members spoke; however, I talked with many Virginians in the crowd.
Virginian, Dr. John Bruchalski, who said he once did abortions, spoke on behalf of life-affirming medical professionals, encouraging real health care reform. He encouraged support for inconvenient truth and “love that casts out fear” as well as intentional support for local pro-life doctors, nurses and pharmacists.
The Washington Times has a slideshow from today’s March.
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E M Barner, the blogger formerly known as DCH / De Civitate Hominis (“concerning the city of man”), writes from a Northern Virginia perspective. Barner has been active in Republican politics and policy since 1994 – as a grassroots volunteer, party leader, and professional.
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9 Responses to "March for Life 2010"
If we didn’t have abortion, we would have about 60 MILLION more, mostly minority, drug addicted people in America today. Face reality: Middle class White women are not a significant number of those who seek to murder babies; the abortion customers are mostly poor, mostly stupid and or druggies.
Abortion is really just a modern form of voluntary eugenics. It is a system that helps cull the dumbest dirt-bags from our population, so in a major way, abortion works for all of us.
Those blubbering evangelicals who want to kill-off the baby murderers are the same hypocrites who cheer for the death penalty and would rather die than pay for any social programs to help the poor, the stupid and the lazy among our society.
So, HYPOCRITES, tell us just how you would handle 60 MILLION more dirt-bags with their hands out, had you gotten your way and no abortions were performed?
Given the fact that mostly poor and minority babies are being exterminated, I am surprised that Republicans aren’t eagerly funding the construction of more abortion mills and advertising free abortions on BET.
Gill – you are so wrong in so many ways, that it’s difficult to know where to begin.
First, let’s look at who you think is pro-life. Personally, I’m Lutheran. The Executive Director of the American Life League, Shaun Kenney, is Catholic. Our governor, Bob McDonnell, is Catholic.
All adamantly pro-life – zero evangelical.
Second, poverty in America is a problem. We know it’s a problem. However, I believe much of the welfare state has been created precisely to create government dependency and promote voters for the Democratic Party. Policies that promote educational choice, strong families, and the free market have proven time and again to be successful at combating poverty and creating an environment where those 60 million people you talk of could be contributing members of our economy.
Third – they’re not “dirt bags”, they’re human beings…and every life is sacred and worthy of given the chance to succeed.
Fourth – the death penalty is an unfortunate, but sometimes necessary punishment to those who are the worst among us. It is ridiculous for the state and taxpayers to preserve the life for sometimes decades of one who is a threat to all of us.
Please, take your hate speech somewhere else. Your argument is revolting, incendiary, and unnecessary. The only thing you prove with your tirade is how small-minded and hateful you are.
Hey, Gill, I’m one of those “blubbering evangelicals” you so despise, and I agree with Jim – every life is precious and sacred.
If it’s not white women in the majority of those having abortions (and, as I understand it, that is true), then who is?? Blacks, Hispanics, Asians? And ALL those aborted children would have been stupid druggies? Gee, now there’s a bigoted and racist statement if I ever saw one!
As for the red herring/straw man of abortion vs. executing murderers – so you think that killing a helpless child in the womb – who has never even had a chance to commit a crime – is the moral equivalent of executing a person who was arrested, convicted by a jury of his/her peers, sentenced to death, had their case reviewed several times, and then brought to final justice? That person who is executed for murder has already gone through many layers of the justice system – where is the safety net for the child?
As Jim says, take your revolting and hateful argument elsewhere. And may God in His grace spare you from His wrath!
Gill, I can’t believe you’re actually biggoted enough to attach your name to that statement.
Count me among those evangelicals. But I’ll tell you that every life is valuable, regardless of how it gets here. That’s what evangelicals believe. We also believe that behavior has consequences and that there is a vast distinction between eliminating an innocent life and executing a convicted criminal.
The majority of those 60 million may indeed have been productive members of society. Might have found the cure for cancer, might have negotiated world peace. But we’ll never know.
What we do know is that most of them would not have been dropped on their heads as a baby as you apparently were.
Gill – As much as I may agree with them, I won’t be as polite as the others:
Go to hell.
Gill,
I am proud to say I am pro-life. Twenty-three years ago, my own mother was presented with an option that no woman should ever encounter: Choose life or choose death for a daughter who was not expected to make it in this world. My mother chose life, and that daughter is my younger sister, a woman who wants to make the world a better place by working with terminally ill children as a child life specialist. I thank God every day for my mother and her decision to choose life.
Life is precious and a gift from our Creator.
pay no attention to Gill. He openly supports a neo nazi organization, American Renaissance. Look at the link in his name.
I note that none of you who offered an emotional counter to my post offered any new social spending or explained how, should those 60 Million murdered minority and often crack-addicted babies been allowed to be born, how you compassionate conservatives would provide for them.
Without our current organized eugenics (Oops, I mean legal abortion program) many of our American cities of today would look just like Haiti, but without the earthquake.
What abortion comes down to is, you can kill them now, or pay for them, then execute them, later.
Abortion=eugenics=a better America!
We offered “emotional counters” to your post Gill because none of us can believe you’re really that jack $#i! stupid to really believe the drivel you posted. Your argument is bigoted, racist, nonsense.
We’re an incredibly talented bunch. But we can’t fix stupid.
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