Posts Tagged ‘march for life’
Notes From the Pro-Life Underground
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 informed me of an abortion industry I wasn’t yet privy to—the fetal accessories market. “They make fetus earrings, you know,” the woman told me, indicating the pro-choice establishment. I didn’t tell her I was pro-choice—I just told her I didn’t have my ears pierced. She promised to send me the literature anyway.
Mainstream Liberal Media Twisted Lie Video Corner
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, but the MSM can always find them and give them airtime?”
“Notice too how they mostly interview a white male for the prolife side, and the woman for the pro-choice side? That’s another myth they love to perpetuate, that it’s only or mostly white men who are prolife. WHat a crock of doo-doo.”
“AP is worthless. Have been for a long, long while.”
Purple Tunnel Victim Screwed Again By March for Life
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 and unload in the middle of Capitol Hill?
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The Morning After: Morning After Roe Edition
* 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 don’t expect it to happen again,” said a regional exec.
* On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Tiger Beatdown participated in “Blog for Choice” by imagining the decision on its 36th birthday: “Roe vs. Wade is thirty-six years old today! This means that, if it were a person, its friends and relatives would already be talking to it about how it totally should have had a baby by now, don’t you think?”
* On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, President Obama issued a statement reaffirming his commitment to “protecting a woman’s right to choose” and “ensuring that our daughters have the same rights and opportunities as our sons,” surely disappointing that guy (above). [via Rolling Stone]. Obama’s full statement is after the jump.
Why Only The Sexist Really Covered Today’s March For Life
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 garden variety press gripes: stories too limited in scope; participants not afforded the full, sympathetic profile treatment; items pushed to the back pages or not published at all. Here’s why pro-lifers will have even less clippings to scrapbook after this year’s coverage:
The inauguration. While the crowd may be large, it’s a footnote in comparison to the massive sea of humanity that flooded the mall on Tuesday. Plus, people are expecting pro-lifers to show up. They’re like the fat guy who scarfs down 28 wieners at Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest every year—sure it’s impressive, but look at that tiny lady who ate 59 in her first event!
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Obama Gear For Life
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.
Three Reasons For Pro-Lifers to Like Obama
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 speech, a pro-abortion speech at a Planned Parenthood abortuary.”
High-Schoolers For Life Love Obama
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 protest instead of the celebration—but still shared in the excitement of their new pro-choice President.
Latest in Prolife Policy: Cash for Babies
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 is Praying for My Mom
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:
