2008 Tucson March For Life Poster
Posted on 01/14/2009 9:18:09 PM PST by Fred
America, we won’t go away. Many people wish we would, and heaven knows we would rather be doing almost anything else. But we can’t go away, and we won’t.
I’m sure you’ve seen us. We may have made you angry, or sad, or we may have made you turn quickly away and find something else to look at.
You may have seen us two days before Christmas outside the Planned Parenthood building. The old man with the rosary, the college kids in sweats, the sad-looking woman clutching brochures and an “I Regret My Abortion” sign — that was us.
Maybe you felt offended that we stuck abortion in your face as you rushed out to do last-minute shopping, cheered by Christmas songs on the radio. Well, we felt offended that the “clinic” was open that day. We wanted to enjoy ourselves, too.
Or maybe you heard one of us at a town meeting you attended at the school or the senior center. Maybe it was a savvy young woman lawyer that you heard voice the pro-life argument. Or maybe the voice of the pro-life movement you heard was a halting, nervous voice that got a little too angry or whose words got a little too tangled. In either case, that was us, too.
We may have made you uncomfortable that day. We’re sorry for that. But we’ll be there again at the next town meeting, too. And the next. And the next.
We won’t go away, and we won’t stop talking about abortion. We won’t stop saying, again and again, that this is wrong, and it has to stop.
America, you know more about the unborn than you ever have before. Life magazine used to sell out when they put an unborn baby on the cover. Now, we’ve seen National Geographic’s “In the Womb.” We have sonogram photos at the front of our baby books and we saw our children for the first time in utero through a video monitor.
America, you know more than ever that abortion hurts women. Those of us who have had an abortion know the guilt at what we’ve done and the anger at those who made it seem inevitable, who refused all help, except the kind that kills. Those of us who have a friend who has had an abortion know it is a topic that we must never, ever discuss. It causes too much sadness, inflicts too much pain that can’t be relieved.
America, you know what abortion is, and we know you know. We won’t stand by and pretend with you that nothing is happening.
And we won’t go away, because we can’t make abortion go away from our own consciences.
Abortion stings us.
The sting is there when we see an empty playground and remember that 1 in 5 children in America dies by abortion. The sting is there when we read of successful surgery saving unborn children in the womb, and remember that babies don’t survive the most common surgery in the womb. The sting is there when we want to celebrate the first black American president, but we realize that abortion is the leading killer of blacks and that his record is 100% in favor of abortion.
Is abortion necessary for women’s rights? Ask the teens impregnated by older men and brought to the “clinic” by them, too. Is it a matter of choice? Ask the women who wanted to have their babies but were badgered and pressured and tricked and even forced to kill instead.
But doesn’t abortion help women? Ask the ones who died on the operating table — or the ones who say they wish they died because the depression is too much to bear.
What would America be like without abortion? We can’t even imagine. In It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey gets a glimpse of what Bedford Falls would be like if he hadn’t been born. “Each man’s life touches so many others,” he learns, then he returns to a world where that tragedy never happened.
We won’t get to return to the world we could have had if all the George Baileys lost to abortion had been allowed to be born.
Did we abort a statesman who would have changed the course of this country? Did we abort the musician who would have taken that art — and our emotions with it — to new heights? What cures, stories, jokes, athletic feats or technological innovations did we abort? What great actor is missing from our movies? What great teachers will never inspire our kids at school?
No, America, we won’t go away, no matter how much you want us to or how much we want to go.
We want to think we would have told the slave-sellers, “No way. Not here. I will use every legal means to stop you.” We like to think we wouldn’t have sat still in World War II Germany as the trains rumbled by. We wish we could have sat with Rosa Parks or prayed with Ruby Bridges on the way to school.
But we can’t do any of that. What we can do is remind you, America, in season and out of season, of the words you were founded on: “All men are endowed by their Creator with the right to life.”
So you’ll see us shivering in the cold again this January for the March for Life. And you’ll see us next January, and the January after that and the January after that, until we wear you down at last and there’s no more reason to march.
And if we die before you change, America, we’ll be able to stand before God and say, “I defended the defenseless. I stood for the weak. My brothers and sisters couldn’t cry, ‘Stop,’ so I cried it for them. And I refused to go away.”
Our “We Won’t Go Away” editorial has been a March for Life day tradition at the Register. To find an electronic copy, go to NCRegister.com and scroll down to “Hot Topics.”
Here is something that came to my thoughts regarding Abortion. A poem I wrote last week.
Sometimes, God gives me a thought—and I sit down, and then—”he gives me the words” to say something in a special way, like I did with my “Tears for Terri” poem in 2005, during that whole mess. This is something that is written from the viewpoint of an aborted child, in heaven—asking WHY Christians allowed her to die—and pleading for them to dome something to stop Abortion—and FOCA in particular.
And I want to know::WHY??
By RCA2000
Why did you let it happen??
You could have stopped it, you know….
But, instead, you just sat by, and did nothing…
And now, I’ll never get the chance to grow.
I know you all say you care,
And that you would keep me from harm..
But still…you sat by…all wrapped up in yourselves..
Instead of spreading the word….sounding the alarm.
And now, I am in heaven…and I am looking down…
And I have to admit. .I sure am wearing a frown…
At your complacency and lack of concern…
And I wonder.. Will those Christians on Earth EVER learn??
I never got the chance to be born…
To be held, coddled and shown love.
To grow up as a child, and have friends,
Then become and adult, a mother and a wife.
And see my own children, be born…be loved..
And grow up , and watch them have a happy life.
Instead, my life was snuffed out, with less care of that than stepping on an ant..
So that someone could “find themselves”, and not have my needs to supplant.
And I am now free and here in my eternal home,… heaven above…
And of course, I will never know pain ..or hunger…or emptiness…
And here, unlike on Earth, I will know endless love..
But still I am hurt…cause I wanted to live. Wanted to have a life of my own..
To find my way in life….grow up, marry and have a happy home..
But I can never do that…cause someone killed my chance..
And I never got the chance to bring my mom happiness..
Or have her teach me to ride my bike.. or teach me how to dance.
Why didn’t someone do something—to make sure I had my birth…
And my chance to make my mark…and have a life on this Earth??
To know love and happiness, good days and bad..
And perhaps bring joy to someone else…who may have been sad??
I know it is too late for me…my chance has come and gone..
But.. There are others out there…who are still waiting…to see their first dawn..
And you can still help them….for them…it is not yet too late..
If you will act now, spread the word.. and make SURE there is some debate…
Please, do your best…to help stop this awful loss…
Even if it makes some others mad…or comes at some cost…
So many others like me get their chance to live, and grow up in your world..
And share their love and talents with all.. and reach out to others with love
As their time on this place called Earth is unfurled..
Cause if you don’t.. and they don’t get their chance to know a mothers love..
I may just have to cry…and I don’t want to do that…not here…up above..
Thanks for your time…And please…do something NOW. .not much time is left..
Or in just a few weeks…many more like me… will see an Earthly death.. …
Sincerely…
Ashley….Aborted.12-27-08.
URGENT: Novena request for the defeat of FOCA to start Jan.11
I’ll be listening to the many fine speakers from the March for Life on EWTN shortwave radio.
Will any FRiends be at the March.
Is there some way that we might identify each other??
Heavenly Father, in Your love for us, protect against the wickedness of the devil, those helpless little ones to whom You have given the gift of life.
Touch with pity the hearts of those women pregnant in our world today who are not thinking of motherhood.
Help them to see that the child they carry is made in Your image - as well as theirs - made for eternal life.
Dispel their fear and selfishness and give them true womanly hearts to love their babies and give them birth and all the needed care that a mother can give.
We ask this through Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and Holy Spirit, One God, forever and ever. Amen.
NO WAY am I going to be any where near Washington DC this January 22nd. Two days after the inauguration? It will be a mess, most likely trashed!
However, there are a number of people attending the West Coast March for Life in San Francisco on the 24th.
MARCH FOR LIFE 2009 (LIVE) - Washington, D.C. 4 hrs
Live and complete coverage of the most important pro-life event of the year: the 2008 March For Life. This prayerful walking procession up Constitution Avenue in Washington DC, ends with a Rally for Life at the Washington Monument. Network coverage includes interviews, panel discussions, and speeches from pro-lifers around the country.
Thu 1/22/09 11:00 AM ET & 8 AM PT
Thu 1/22/09 10:00 PM ET & 7 PM PT
Sat 1/24/09 9:00 AM ET & 6 AM PT
INTERNATIONAL ROSARY FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE UNBORN 30 mins
From St. Mary's Church in Metamore, Illinois, the joyful mysteries are prayed, with a pro-life meditation for each of the five mysteries. The prayers are in 14 different languages, each by separate representative speakers of those languages.
Sun 1/18/09 3:30 PM ET & 12:30 PM PT
Thu 1/22/09 3:30 PM ET & 12:30 PM PT
Thank you VERY MUCH! That will come in handy.
It’ll be great!
I can’t stand crowds, but everyone in the March is awesome!
Never had a problem.
prolife bump
Nope. I'm NOT sorry for that.
The reality of dead babies, >50 million of them, and the democRat Party's love of same and explicit desire for more should make folks uncomfortable.
Yep. Two days after The Apotheosis of 0bama the Magnificent.
I've no doubt that the March, this year, will be opposed by more than the usual contingent of obscene, vulgar, stinking, bizarrely dressed, dead-eyed 0bamorrhoids ranting against us.
You betcha I'll be there.
thank you for your beautiful poem — Let’s March for Life NOW!!
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