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It was such a good
day and it is so encouraging for me to see so many people. Lots of people,
more and more each year. Very good atmosphere, very friendly and peaceful
and positive, very family oriented. So many young people too and to
see them taking a public stand for such a crucial ethical issue but
such a controversial one, something which is so easily dismissed and
derided by most of the media (but not all, SF Gate wrote a very good
and fair piece here
). Nevertheless, it is such a hot topic issue, still not embraced by
so many politicians. I do think a lot of them do not know the people
marching, they have been told we are right wing nut cases or some kind
of extreme home schoolers or stuff like that and they have not checked
it out closely. Which is why I want to post photos of us, marching,
and photos of the signs, especially the hand written signs. As far as
I could tell there were thousands and thousands of us, possibly close
to 40 or 50 000 pro-life marchers. I was there at the first Walk in
2005 (I wrote about it here)
and the protesters are dwindling down in numbers every year, although
they are still pretty virulent, absolutely certain that "their" idea
of feminism is "free abortions on demand, no regret". Personally, I
think that this idea that for a woman to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy
in such a dramatic way as actually an act of freedom has got to be the
biggest fake news of all! Well at least one of them. And how come it
was swallowed so easily and for so long by so many people? Oh well,
I can answer this one: I understand how tempting it is to espouse such
a view because, as I wrote earlier, I agreed with it in my own youth…
Oh my conscience was tugging at me on that one but I do remember how
easily it is to take a grand stand on what is mainly self-serving.
But I don't want to discuss and debate today, I can only tell you one of my very favorite sign at the March last Saturday was the one saying "Embrace grace"!