March for Life images

Things Will Change ^ | 1/27/06 | Dangus

[dangus]

Incredibly, this is only a very small portion of the march:
Two of the photographers interviewing some Franciscans. (Prolifers: The Force IS With Them.)



Supposedly, this is a very large rosary. I think someone came up with a great way of keeping their group together:

The march's lead group

At that age, it's easy to like a media ham:

Two of the web site's creators/photographers, Mike and his very lovely girlfriend, Jessica:


Let's pray some day there are this many people from Ave Maria University on the INSIDE of the Supreme Court building!:
Another photographer/creator of the web site.

[dangus]

For many more photos, please visit www.thingswillchange.org. They are also interested in exhanging photos.

This HAS to have been the largest march yet. It stretched all the day down Constitution Avenue, from 15th St. NW, to 2nd St., NE., and yet only a modest portion of the marchers were in that stretch at any given time. I know, because the camera crew marched back and forth down the stretch a few times!

[philsfan24]

any report on the total turnout in numbers?

[cgk]

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[Aquinasfan]

Great photos!

Bump for life.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

IMPRESSIVE bump....Thank you!

[cgk]

My heart is positively warmed seeing the YOUTHFUL crowd! This is the new generation, lefties, better tread carefully! They're smarter than you think.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[dangus]

They don't count that anymore. Truthfully, I've been there when the organizers counted 250,000, and the park police counted 60,000, and I've thought the actual number was closer to 60,000. (Of course, much smaller marches had claimed march higher crowd numbers!)

But this crowd was mind-boggling. The fact that it was on Constitution Ave., and not the mall made it hard for me to make a good estimate, but I'm guessing hundreds of thousands. The route of the march was about 1 3/4 miles. Had everyone been on the route at once, it'd've had to have been about 3 or 4 miles. And, as you can see, the march was dozens of people across.

There was a 9 AM morning youth mass at the MCI center, which held 25,000 people, and two vigil masses at the National Basilica, which holds 6,000 people. That's 37,000 Catholic communicants. And yet, they were nowhere near accomodating everyone. Instead, they were bussing people to other area churches. And only a modest portion of the Catholics usually attend the Monday morning mass. So figure way, way, waaaaaay over 100,000 Catholics alone.

[WashingtonStateRepublican]

Wonderful photos for a truly blessed event. Thank you for sharing.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Mara Liasson on Brit Hume mentioned the March for Life, and even though she's not a conservative, she seemed impressed with the turnout. She said the modern Republican Party came about because of Roe v Wade.

[Theoden]

Heres some more pictures taken by another Freeper at the event.... DC March for Life Pics

[philsfan24]

excellent synopsis. thanks.

[Palladin]

I attended several Marches For Life in the 70's, and sponsored friends and parishioners in other years. I don't think there have ever been fewer than 100,000 participants, except maybe the one year that there was a big blizzard.

There was a tremendous turnout this year, from all reports.

Too bad, NOW and NAGS and NARAL! You are going to lose your precious "right" to kill innocent babies in the womb very soon!

[Desert_Girl]

Thanks so much for the pics.

As I scroll down through them, I am struck by the age of the participants. They are so young...It does my heart good to know that tomorrow's adults will not be so stupid as my own generation.

Imagine if all those fetuses had just been left alone to grow, how proud we might be of this coming generation...

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Imagine if all those fetuses had just been left alone to grow, how proud we might be of this coming generation...

46,000,000

[dangus]

Don't hate me for this, but on my first pro-life march (many years ago), I remember looking at all the tens of thousands of high-school and college-aged women, all of whom were beautiful, and joking to myself, "Why did I not do this in High School?"

Maybe its for the best that I march now when my motives are pure. :^D

While that was a silly thought in my head, it did make me think: Any 18-year-old is going to have skin, hair, tone, and probably even weight moderation, that most 40-year-old women would kill for. The beauty of the pro-life marchers (compared to the liberals that Mr. Silverback used to always post and ridicule) comes from the fact that there is joy in their hearts, and that they love life. It's a great irony that feminists pitch supporting abortion rights as women who live their bodies; I believe that the pro-lifers know so much better what it is to be beloved.

[Desert_Girl]

46,000,000

I am absolutely speechless. That number is like a direct blow to the heart.

[buck61]

Just look real close to the faces, aren't Gods children so beauty-full? I wished I were able to have been with them.
Suffer not little children, come unto me, for such is the
kingdom of heaven.
God has received 50.000.000 since Roe V. Wade, however, I do not think he wanted them to come to Him in the manner they were sent. My prayer, God bless everyone who marched for the
right to life and those who are fighting the good fight.
THANKs, ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!