I received a letter today, in an envelope with no return address. The note was written on a typewriter and signed in pen: "For life, a mom." I met the note's sender at last week's March for Life, where she told me the sad story of an abortion she's regretted for 35 years. She also [...]
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Above: Associate Press video of last week's March for Life activities. But before you watch, beware! This footage has not been approved by the seasoned media critics over at the comment section at ProLifeBlogs.com. Among their critiques:
"Why is it that the prolifers can go through the entire march without spotting a single proabortion counter protester, [...]
One contributer to the MPD 1st District Listserv got screwed over on Inauguration Day in the "Purple Tunnel" fiasco got screwed again yesterday—this time, by March for Life participants. The victim recalls the double whammy:
Forgetting the purpose of the Right to Life protest what was MPD's logic in allowing all of their buses to load [...]
* On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, thousands of protesters flooded the mall for the annual March for Life. These are their stories.
* On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a man rammed an "older SUV" into a Minnesota Planned Parenthood, preventing no abortions and hurting no one. "It's never happened before and we [...]
This guest post examining the media dynamics behind today's March for Life was written by City Paper intern Ryan Reilly.
Even before the 2009 March for Life kicked off today on the National Mall, pro-lifers were complaining—to the Washington Times, no less—that the media was not giving them a fair shake. The complaints are pretty much [...]
Rick Washington, a 54-year-old Temple Hills resident, watched the March for Life pass him buy from a busy spot alongside the National Gallery of Art. Washington, a graphic designer, was there to hawk mementos more fitting Tuesday's National Mall crowd—full-color 2009 calendars featuring photographs of the Obama family.
This 67-year-old pro-life activist at today's March for Life, who didn't want her name published—"I'm very well known, and I don't want people to know I've had an abortion," she says—lists three things to like about our new President.
1. "He's married, even though it's to that angry, hateful Michelle, who last year delivered a pro-abortion [...]
High school students Elizabeth Liang, 18, Morgan Seibert, 17, and Megan Gutting, 17, took a whirlwind trip to Washington, D.C. by bus last night to participate in the march for life. The three Grand Rapids, Mich. teens, who arrived at 7 this morning, missed the inaugural festivities by a couple days—they opted to attend the [...]
John Wyne, a 41-year-old Fairfaxer, has been thrifty and consistent in his prolife marching equipment. For eight or nine years, he has carried a 4-foot coffin that he constructed out of cardboard and electrical tape to the March for Life events on the National Mall.
Carolyn Zolbe, marcher in the March for Life and Arlington resident, thinks this about President Barack Obama: "I think he's a child of God."
Zolbe's daughter, Grace Doherty, isn't quite as neutral in her assessment:
