Well over half a million people showed up this year for the 40th annual March for Life in Washington D.C. last Friday. No violence occurred, nor hate speech uttered. It was not primarily a march against abortion (although it is intrinsically against abortion in all circumstances), but even more so a march for life. The media was no where to be found beside one or two local stations and a handful of Catholic networks. It always amazes me how the media can go to such great measures to avoid mentioning over a half of a million people peacefully protesting in the capitol and yet they do year after year after year. It hardly matters since this march has always from the beginning been a grassroots movement.
I heard a comment from someone in DC saying that they didn't like the March for Life, not because of the issue itself, but mainly because of how it disrupted the daily routine within the nation's capitol. That is the march's purpose, to disrupt everyone's relatively comfortable lives and confront them with the reality that of abortion. This is the greatest civil rights issue of our day and the most basic dealing with the right of every person to be born. It is for the over 55 million who were denied that right since 1972.
Pax et bonum,
Mike
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| Youth Rally and Mass before the march in the Verizon Center. |
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