Annual March for Life Is Today

Sixty-two million persons have lost their lives to abortion since 1973. Yes, I am using the word person intentionally because living things only belong to one species. They don't change species. When a human being is conceived they are a member of the human species. Thus each one is a person. This is science. This is basic biology.

In 1972 the people of Michigan, my home state, defeated a ballot measure that would have made abortion legal in Michigan, up until 20 weeks gestation. It was defeated by a wide margin. I distinctly remember my parents working against this measure and their great relief that abortion would remain illegal in Michigan. Then, only a few months later, the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down by the Supreme Court overturning every law protecting the unborn in all fifty states. My parents were livid. How could a court overturn the expressed will of the people.

Every year since that infamous and rogue decision by the Supreme Court pro-lifers from all over the country come to Washington to protest this raw exercise of judicial power. They come to defend the unborn.

Now that we may be on the verge of overturning Roe it's important to remember what such an action by the Supreme Court would do and what it would not do. It would not make abortion illegal across the board in the United States. Individual states would decide if abortion would be legal for that state or not. In my state of Michigan the former laws forbidding abortion would go back into effect. In other states, like New York, the prior law allowing abortion would stay in effect. An overturning of Roe simply returns the matter to the states where it belongs.

Those of us who defend the unborn would still have much work to do because many states would still allow abortion.

Roe v Wade is hardly settled law, as some claim. The first March for life was in 1974 and hundreds of thousands of people have traveled across the country to protest ever since.

The crowds are incredible. I have been there many times. It's cold. It's crowded. And it's difficult. Yet people keep coming every single year.

Find out more about the history of the March at this link.

To see the list of speakers check out this link.

You can watch the March for Life live streamed at this link.

You can also watch it on Facebook.

Oh Lord, please bring an end to the scourge of abortion in this country. May all come to recognize the humanity and personhood of the unborn child. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.