March for Life 2013 Live Thread (???) -- Should we have one?

1-25-2013 | vanity

[topher]

With the hundreds of thousands of people and the many events going on in Washington, DC, maybe FreeRepublic.com should have LIVE THREAD on the March.

FreeRepublic.com is a Pro-Life website, and this event (especially in Washington, DC) targets the Federal Government.

Freepers/Lurkers could post photos and news in such a thread.

Just a thought.

[topher]

There are alot of other going on, but maybe an annual March for Life LIVE THREAD would be a good thing.

[topher]

Ping! Thoughts?

[Lysander]

Yes

[huldah1776]

I would love to know how things are going because the MSM sure isn’t going to report any of it. Rand Paul was supposed to speak at the march. I’ll be searching to read what he said.

I also think ALL pro-life threads should be in an activism category.

[Pinkbell]

I agree. I was looking for one. It should be in the Breaking News section.

[Guenevere]

Fox had a very quick, soundless few seconds showing Rick Santorum speaking.....mentioned that the attendance might be higher than last years 400, 000......and that was it.

Not even C-Span (at last check) could bother to run it.

[mikemoose]

EWTN has live coverage for the entire event...

http://www.ewtn.com/multimedia/live_player.asp?satname=domenglp&telrad=t001&servertime=2013125843

[Salvation]

March for Life Ping!

If you were there — tell us about it.

Were you able to meet up with other FReepers?

[married21]

Also, if anybody went to the West Coast march for life, I’d appreciate hearing how it went, and any pictures.

(Looking for pictures of the West Coast march for life is how I found Free Republic in the first place, several years ago.)

[SamuraiScot]

We went, and it was absolutely titanic, and beautiful. Really cold, too!. I'm sorry I didn't think to look for FReepers. I was preoccupied with scheduling and keeping our group together.

We brought over 118 people—home-schooled kids, their parents, brothers and priests from the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and a group of hispanic young adults who had formed a pro-chastity group called Corazon Puro ("pure heart"), who were fantastic. (They're mostly from the Dominican Republic.)

Corazon Puro had a scheduled interview at the EWTN booth, so we brought them there after Mass at the Verizon Center. And while we were waiting for them, the home-schooled kids were approached by a reporter for USA Today. Check out this , quite major story from USA Today that resulted. Most of the narrative is actually taken up with an interview with our kids—who are rarely at a loss for words. The great thing is that the reporter was genuinely open to a good story (I suspect she was pro-life herself).

The pictures on the USA Today site are terrific. (Maybe a FReeper with the requisite skills can post a few.)

In particular, there's one that gives a sense of the immense size of the march, and another of an anti-Obama poster with a demonic-looking portrait of him with the inscription: "My legacy is abortion." (Click on the 7th thumbnail from the left.)

[ArrogantBustard]

I was there ... good crowd, good speakers. I was particularly impressed with Rand Paul's challenge to pro-death folks to 'look into the eyes' of a 1-lb preemie and still say it's not human.

I would not have been able to participate in a live thread ... too cold to operate my phone.

[Hoosier Catholic Momma]

My oldest daughter and I went with a group from three different parishes from Gallia/Meigs Counties in Ohio. There were approximately 40 of us...ranging from age of 9 months on up to ladies in their 70s—and our priest also went with us. Rand Paul was awesome. Went to the Mass the night before and couldn’t believe the numbers of people in the Basilica. Our Bishop (Monforton from Steubenville Diocese) was down in the lower church distributing communion.

I was as cold as I have ever been in my life, and my husband kept trying to text me during the March, LOL. I had to take off my gloves and freeze my fingers off to respond that I was a little busy at them moment! It was my first March, and although I was exhausted by the time we got home (collapsed into my own bed at 2:30 Saturday morning after driving home from D.C. Friday evening), it was something I will never forget. It has definitely inspired our Right to Life group to do more than educating the public and material assistance to pregnant women. I have taken charge to get us signed up to participate in 40 Days for Life this time around.

We had to search long and hard to find the pro-death crowd in front of the Supreme Court after the March. In the hundreds of thousands of people that participated, I was particularly heartened to see all the young people. As one of the speakers said ‘We are not the future of the pro-life movement, we ARE the pro-life movement.’ Our own group had a large number of teens and 20 somethings.