Last week, hundreds of thousands of Americans made their way to
Washington, D.C., thronging its stately streets and avenues with
messages of love and hope. They came from diverse backgrounds and
represented a variety of age groups, but the majority of them
were young people, filled with adoration for the Anointed One.
They came together to pledge themselves to do his bidding despite
the best efforts of his adversaries.
Were these joyous people in D.C. for Martin Luther King Day? Had
they gathered to offer homage to newly inaugurated President
Barack Obama? Actually, they converged on our nation’s capital to
celebrate life and fight for its protection in this country. And
although you’d never know it from watching the network news or
reading the major newspapers, the participants in the 36th annual
March for Life compose the most attended annual event in
Washington.
As is usual for those whose message is one that the media finds
unpleasant, pro-lifers are ignored or arrogantly dismissed as
kooks or worse; religious freaks. Yet, to those gathered to
defend life, it is the Obama worshippers and MLK celebrants whose
priorities are skewed: there can be no hope or equality in a
nation that allows its future to be sacrificed on the altar of
convenience.
And so they gather each year to make their voices heard, ending
their march at the steps of the Supreme Court building, over
whose portal are the words: “Equal Justice Under Law.” At this
site, where the right to abortion was arrogantly and illegally
injected by unelected judges into our U.S. Constitution, they
appeal to their fellow Americans for equal justice for their
future countrymen, and ask God for his forgiveness.
Among those speaking to the crowd was Dr. Alveda King, a woman
who does not celebrate her uncle Martin’s birthday with empty
platitudes or sugary testimonials. Instead, she
speaks bluntly and truthfully:
Oh, God, what would Martin Luther King, Jr., who dreamed of
having his children judged by the content of their characters do
if he’d lived to see the contents of thousands of children’s
skulls emptied into the bottomless caverns of the abortionists
pits?
Ms. King rightly laments that, in the midst of celebrating Barack
Obama’s inauguration, no one seems to care about the 13 million
black babies who have been lost since Roe v. Wade. Or
that although blacks constitute only 12 percent of our
population, they account for 35 percent of all abortions
performed in America. She weeps when she realizes that 1,400
black children are eliminated every day, one of whom might also
have grown up to become a president of the United States.
We too should weep when our president shows the ultimate respect
for the lives of terrorists at Gitmo by conferring on them the
protection of our precious constitutional rights, but none for
the innocents for whom that document was specifically written;
namely “ourselves and our posterity.” And no one was surprised
when he signed an Executive Order that rescinded the Mexico City
policy, which restricted foreign aid money to NGOs that perform
abortions.
But it is not only the Executive and Legislative branches of our
government that are feeding our national culture of death. Which
brings us to the recent pronouncement by the
Speaker of the House of the United States of America: that
federally financed birth control an abortion will help the
economy. Were this idiocy not so representative of the quality of
our elected leadership, it would be astounding. As it is, even
the White House has distanced itself from this lunacy, which is
not even worthy of further comment.
And just over the bleak horizon, our government may soon give us
the Freedom of Choice Act, a truly repulsively named piece of
legislation aimed at taking the individual states out of the
process of limiting abortion. It aims to do legally what the
courts did illegally: make abortion-on-demand the law of the
land. All of this — God, help us — in the name of so-called
women’s reproductive health.
Barack Obama has followed into office the most pro-life president
since the dark stain of legalized abortion was visited on this
land. And if some of his campaign rhetoric is to be believed, he
is nearly George W. Bush’s polar opposite on this issue; famously
saying that if his daughters “make a mistake, I don’t want them
punished with a baby.”
When all who fight for life mourn the millions of lives lost in
the past 36 years, let us also grieve for those born in that span
who have been brainwashed into thinking that abortion is somehow
beneficial to this country or to American motherhood. Let us pray
that the day never comes when President Obama needs to explain to
his two little girls that their precious lives were the result of
punishment.
