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Diverse, caring groups part of important March for Life

Commentary

I witnessed the heart and soul of the pro-life movement marvelously on display with President Trump in the center of it. Trump was the first president ever to personally address the massive annual March for Life in Washington in late January. Dignifying the occasion, the president energized, affirmed, and lifted up the flood of people swamping the area seeking justice for the unborn. The marching pro-lifers indeed proved that D.C. can be swamped with good. Signs like “Love Them Both” depicting an unborn child and a mother expressed the desire to truly help both.

Astounded by the amazing number of young people in attendance, I saw colorful banners from schools like Pitt, Notre Dame and George Mason, along with many parochial schools joined with others from all walks of life including secularists for life. Hand it to the Roman Catholics whose voice for life was evident, clear and unashamed. Though crucial irreconcilable theological differences currently exist between us evangelical Protestants and Catholics, we yet can both be united in the fight against the cheapening of life through abortion.

Along the route, a large disturbing picture set up by the Center of Bio-Ethical Reform soberly reminded all of us who marched of the horror in the genocide of abortion. The picture captured a tiny hand, a hand of an aborted child with a rat less than an inch away ready to consume it.

Sadly in death, the remains of unborn children are treated like garbage. Even the wicked ruler Herod Anitipas had the decency to deliver the beheaded body of John the Baptist to his disciples for burial. Yet the cruelty of hardened abortionists don’t even have the heart to dispose the remains of a dead child in a decent, respectful, and dignified manner. Their human remains are bagged as trash relegated to the dump where the rats wait. When abortion is hidden, abortion is tolerated.

Ruminating on the two separate marches in D.C., the Women’s March and the March for Life, millennial Matt Walsh observed how women at the Women’s March marched for themselves, but the women, and in fact, every single person at the March for Life marched for others. It could not have been expressed better than by a young woman standing on a structure 20 feet above the marchers with a sign saying, “I’m here standing for the millions of unborn children who are not.”

The Rev. Mel McGinnis is a Frewsburg resident.

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