You arrive at this amazing march and
there's thousands of people gathered for
one cause and that's the cause of life. I
have a favorite quote by President
Ronald Reagan and he says everybody who
seems to have an opinion on whether
pro-life or pro-choice; they have already
been born so we're really just speaking
for the voices who can't say anything.
We're speaking up for the babies.
It's a pilgrimage—an event—not just for
marching but for an awareness of life and
awareness of the protection of life and
awareness of the, sort of the fragility
of life; that in each individual, there is
a sacredness. And the reason we take the
juniors to the holocaust museum is that
it parallels the time where our students
are reading Man's Search for Meaning
by Dr. Viktor Frankl.
Dr. Frankl was a psychiatrist; he was imprisoned.
Everyone he knew died in the
concentration camp.
It's a great museum
and it really captures the
depersonalization of the people who are
in the camps. They're really like
how fetuses are called 'a pile of issue' the
Jews and all the people who are in the
concentration camps were just called 'workers'.
It reminds us
that it's very easy to become lord over
death and life, but no person is lord over
death and life; only God.
Having Mass in the
beginning before we went to the march
was really important for us. It really set
the tone for what we are about to
experience.
In Father Tom's homily, there
was a lot of talking about Christian
family life and how bringing children
into this world is just the most
beautiful thing ever and I think about
people in my family; there's my dad is
one of seven and four of them are adopted
so I always think about like, what if
that mom made that choice not to have
that kid? Like, I can't— like my world
would be so different and it's just
truly terrible that mothers have the
option today to kill their baby and, you
know, call the shots— act like their God
and play God. It's just really not okay. I
can't imagine my world out my aunts my,
uncles who are adopted and who are, like,
sickly when they were younger. I'm sure
their mothers are given the option to
abort because they knew that they were
sick, but they chose life and I'm so
grateful for that choice.
I think a great
testimony to the to the life of the pre-born
child, is all those sonograms.
Every so often a teacher is going to
show, or teachers shows, either his class
or students
a picture of the little baby swimming
around and even science makes us
much more aware now of the fact that, yes,
the pre-born child is very much alive.
We are truly the pro-life generation. It
was really breathtaking when we first
entered that large crowd of people just
just trying to stand up for the rights.
Most people are under the age of 30 and
more and more young adults are there so
it has taken on a whole transformation
over the 44 years. New life has come. New
energy has come. New voices have come but
the mission is still to attempt to make
these aborted children have a voice.
When you all come together you really see the
power in numbers and you really get to
see what standing up together really
sends such a powerful message.
This march was astonishing to me because it was not
a march of hate, or anger, or fear. It was
truly a margin inspired by love and joy.
I think one of the things that our
modern culture is becoming more aware of
is the difference between "legal" and "moral".
If something is legal, it may not
necessarily be moral.
Look at slavery. They'll say slavery was legal
but it wasn't moral. Look at abortion in this
country. It's legal, but it's not moral and
I think one of the things that is making
people much more aware is the whole
question of life is life and no person
no man or woman has the right to decide
who is and who dies.
