Posted on 01/22/2010 7:19:16 PM PST by Steelfish
Thousands of Pro-Lifers Storm D.C.
By Julia Duin
Hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers protested the 37th anniversary of legalized abortion Friday, buoyed by polls and a recent Republican victory in Massachusetts that they said show public opinion may be finally swinging in their favor.
"Do you realize you live in a majority pro-life country?" Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican, shouted to a crowd that filled four blocks of the National Mall from Seventh to 12th Street Northwest. "We are going to win this fight."
Organizers estimated the crowd at the March for Life to number at least 200,000. A "virtual" march on Washington, hosted by Americans United for Life at www.virtualmarchforlife.com, attracted 74,925 "avatars" by late Friday afternoon. The March for Life marks the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision.
After two hours of speeches from a variety of political and religious leaders, the mostly college-aged crowd marched up Constitution Avenue to the Supreme Court under hazy skies in 45-degree weather.
Twenty-one members of Congress each took the podium to celebrate the current woes surrounding the Senate version of President Obama's health care bill, which opponents say would expand federally subsidized abortion. Due to the surprise election Tuesday of Massachusetts state Sen. Scott Brown to the late Edward M. Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat, Democrats are now one vote shy of the supermajority needed to overcome Republican filibusters.
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Just wait until there are larger protests. The MSM will start attacking them.
scrub the historical record.
rewrite history.
achieve power over all human life.
Right. It had to be double that. Easy.
If it wasn't for the double standards, the liberal turds would have no standards at all!!!
I saw that! It wall all over the news today! ....NOT!
life
Pray, to end the killing!
The Pro-Life people are marching in the wrong place! They should be in New York marching in front of the network headquarters.
NBC didn’t mention it at all. PBS gave a brief mention, but didn’t show photos that would indicate the size of the crowd.
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