March for Life Recap

I recently attended the annual March for Life in Washington D.C. and, as always, it was an event to behold.  There were, as always, thousands upon thousands of people littering the streets of the city.  The vigil Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception was, as always, absolutely packed, as was the Youth Rally Mass at the Verizon Center, which filled capacity and that overflow crowd filled the Armory.  As always there was no media, apart from EWTN, that paid any sort of serious attention to the March. 

One of the things that stuck out to me the most at this year’s march was an incident that happened right in between the Supreme Court and the Congress building.  This point is the sort of climax of the whole March and where it actually ends.  As usual there was a group of Pro-Choice activists, no more then 30-50, protesting while standing at the end of the March but they were surely outnumbered by the thousands and thousands of Pro-Life supporters constantly filing past them.  My eyes caught though a solo newscaster for NBC standing just to the side of the Supreme Court.

 As he went on-air he started talking about a completely different news story and only mentioned in passing that there were demonstrators around him, which was the cause of the overwhelming sound.  The scene was so sadly comical because although the right to life issue is felt so strongly by so many people and yet the media absolutely refuses to acknowledge it.