Posted on 01/24/2006 12:59:06 AM PST by right-wingin_It
I wanted to post some pictures from today's (well, technically yesterday's) 'March for Life' in DC.
Just before the March began...
Here is some evidence that Alito's Legacy is alive and well at Princeton!
Let the record show 'The eye of Ted Turner' (the enemy) was witness to this event -- But expect from CNN a twisted story (if any)...
The March is starting now (well, it was starting to move from where I was anyways)...
A guy in front of me had this message scrawled on the back of his sign...
This next photo's my favorite...She's the next generation! So many families were there. (I'm not a great photographer, but I think it could make a good cover for a pro-life magazine...maybe?) Adorable!
Some more 'in-march' photos...We were quite packed. The first one is looking frontwards up Capitol Hill. The next one looking behind...
Lot of Christian and other religious folk (Jewish etc). Here's an Orthodox Christian group who were lined up for a photo as I passed...
Arrival at the Supreme Court...
AMEN to the Next Photo!
Last but not least. We will not forget!
"Sometimes you really impress me."
Doesn't he, though...
GOOD post, wardaddy.
Thank you!
You have to go back over 30 years to find that history.
The status quo has changed, for the worse.
If the best you can do is evaluate the national climate in 2006 by looking back to 1972, you're all wet.
I was impressed that he knew that.
I surely didn't.
Things really have changed, sadly.
But if Roe is continually held in stare decisis, and is considered to be a result of the right of privacy rulings in Griswold v. Connecticut and Eisenstadt v. Baird, wouldn't the Court have to overrule Griswold, Eisenstadt, and Roe to achieve this effect?
While I believe that most states would at some point end up keeping abortion legal, some of the more solidly conservative states in the West and Midwest would move to at least restrict, if not ban abortion. Many of these would IMO look at a state constitutional amendment right off the bat, where it would be at least in theory more difficult for the Federal courts to overturn the law.
I'm currently only a PoliSci student looking at law school after getting my baccalaureate degree--so I'm clearly not as knowledgeable on these things...
"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."
Ronald Reagan
Actually, todays young women are more pro life than their mothers ever were, in general. That polling scares the hell out of pro abortionists but it's simply a natural progression. Pro life women don't abort their kids.
Tf you think overturning Roe will turn back the culture thirty years, then it's you who are absolutely wrong.
I made no sweeping claims, however you did. And you can't support it with facts, trends or data. In case you've forgotten you claim that overturning Roe will maintain the status quo. No evidence just your assertion.
The pro life movement has been stymied and defeated consistently for over thirty years.
Oh garbage. States have now passed laws making the killing of an unborn baby a crime. The only thing holding us back is the SCOTUS. 5 dungs in robes. Alito may change that entire equation.
They continue to argue that abortion should be illegal (and many of us think it should), oblivious to the fact that the consensus opinion in the USA settled that a long time ago, and they lost.
Here you once again misrepresent the facts with a false assertion. The consensus opinion is that abortion should be the subject of strict regulation by the states. The status quo of abortion on demand is not representative of public opinion, it is representative of 5 dwarves in robes.
Keep it up.
Count on it!
They say the definition on insanity is to continue to do the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. By that standard, the pro life leadership should have been institutionalized a long time ago.
Once again you ignore the facts. In fact you ignored this fact:
There are well over 140,000 babies killed each year in the second trimester and perhaps 10,000 more in the third trimester. I ask you again, is that significant?
Wardaddy: Nice post up above.
Take a look at the laws being passed in South Dakota vis a vis abortion. Most restrictive in the nation and getting more restrictive as time goes on.
I have to tell you about my favorite poster from the March for Life in WDC on Monday.
While we gathered in the Mall, I walked around for a bit during the speeches. I like scope out the various posters, groups, etc. and collect some of the literature people are passing out. I passed by a group of high school kids whose hand-made sign said "ByzanTEENS for Life" at the top. I thought that was clever. Below the words I could see the top of an icon, but right then the sign was at about head level, so I couldn't make out who was on the icon.
I am so kicking myself for not going up, getting a closer look and talking to them.
By the end of the March, I had got separated from everyone else in my group. So I left the Supreme Court area and began walking toward Union Station where I knew a few of them would be. En route there, I could see down the block that "ByzanTEENS for Life" sign held high.
Below the words was an icon of the Vistation of Mary to Elizabeth. Within each saint, you could see the child she was bearing, as with an artistic "x-ray" -- and you could see the fetal St. John the Baptist within St. Elizabeth joyfully worshipping the Christ Fetus within the Blessed Virgin Mary! It was amazing to look at!
The "windows on the wombs" were not circular abstractions, like in the icon "Our Lady of the Sign". They were roughly anatomically correct ovalish shapes located in the saints' bellies. The icon looked like it was based on a traditional icon of the visitation, with the "x-ray" images added on.
I started to run to catch up to them and get a closer look and to find out whether it was handmade or purchased, etc. But they crossed the street to get to Union Station, and by the time the light changed for me, they were nowhere to be seen.
I did some Yahoo searches hoping to find the "ByzanTEENS for Life" online, and the icon, but was unsuccessful.
I know a Ukrainian priest who works with an artist (Ann Simoneau) who has done many wonderful icons for his books, parish bulletins, etc. I'm going to ask him that he suggest that Ann make a version of this icon. If she does, and it is published somewhere, I will let you know.
You've offered nothing to bolster your claim....just your musings.
Not from 1972 or 2006.
and it has been pointed out to you by others that some states have already inhibited as abortion as much as they can.
if Roe is overturned, it's logical to believe they will react as much as they can within that framework which will then mean outlawing nearly all abortion.
the heartland is much different than the Northeast.
Thankfully.
to be honest i never really got what the antagonistic poster's point was:
1) we're all dumabasses and he's bright and clever...and an attorney to boot..lol
2) all is lost and the war can never be won to stop most abortions anyhow so why even fight it?
3) a little Neitzche goes a long way?
Thanks for posting all those photos. Thank you very much. It was neat to see the folks remembers Terri Schindler Schiavo.
you're smarter than most Gomers around here
I'm a political science student. And a conservative. And outspoken.
In light of this though, some of my profs view me as an anomaly, if not a nuisance...
Well, FReegards
Thanks for the ping. I was at my church hosting the homeless familieis in this area through Interfaith Hospitality Network. (Didn't have access to a computer, obviously!)
Thanks for posting!
Dear Aquinasfan,
My own experience is that these sorts of displays aren't large in number.
As some folks have pointed out, there is one large stationary display on the route. You can see it from a distance, and change your path a little and have a good chance of missing it altogether.
However, I've let my sons look at it from very early ages, and though it's very upsetting, it drives home the point what the day is about. We were disappointed that we couldn't make it this year, as I had urgent business matters to which to attend. It's a tough day, uncomfortable, physically unpleasant for much of the time. Yet, my 8 year old was pretty despondent that we wouldn't make it. My two sons know how serious this all is. The ugly pictures, regrettably, help make the point.
Very sad stuff.
sitetest
The MSM blackout on this was very obvious.
Anyone need another reason to turn off the dominant media?
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