The rising tide of pro-life sentiment:
According to the estimates, the annual March for Life attracted over 250,000 people yesterday, drawing wide participation in the rally against legalized abortion.
This year’s march began with prayer offered by Anglican Priest Martin Mims.
“Forgive us for the many ways in which we have failed to respect the sanctity of every human life,” he began. “Give us courage to be a voice for the voiceless. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. We gather today to pray for our leaders. We pray especially for those who even now are making decisions about providing healthcare for all our people. Protect them from choices made out of political expediency with no mind for your truth,” Mims requested. “Remind them of your promises. Turn their hearts to the children. Lord in your mercy hear our prayer. And now to the God who showed his love for the whole world, to the gift of his only son, Jesus the Christ, and who calls us to do the same, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority before all time and now and forever, Amen.”
To quote from a rather famous American document:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – that is what we’re fighting for, once again. I believe our Founders would be proud of us, the way we have risen up and shaken the corrupt powers-that-be in our nation. But now we must drive it home – and remember that human rights are mutually supportive. If we don’t have a right to life, then our right to free speech is moot – and so, too, is our right to life if we have not the right to speak out in defense of it. We can be all free, or all slave – there is no half way in these matters.
I know a great many of my fellow conservatives feel otherwise about abortion – that it is not a good thing, but a thing they are unwilling to ban. I understand – but it is time we all started to change and realize that we are all in this together – from the unborn child to the 90 year old lingering in a nursing home, we are all humans, we are all endowed with our rights and that if the rights of one are betrayed, so are the rights of all.
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