Posted on 01/23/2010 1:35:31 PM PST by Elvina
The thirty-seventh annual March for Life took place yesterday in Washington, DC, with several northern and southern New Jersey contingents participating. Unofficial estimates of the crowd size vary from 250,000 to 400,000, which would be the largest crowd that the annual event has drawn.
New Jersey conservative activist Andrew P. Schlafly, founder of Conservapedia, led a 93-member contingent of home-school students, families, and older adults that traveled to Washington on two chartered buses to participate in the rally and march. Other New Jersey contingents were on hand, including several from multiple towns in North Jersey and at least one from Trenton.
Schlafly cited an on-air estimate reported by the Eternal Word Television Network as stating that 400,000 people were in attendance. After the march, he enthusiastically predicted that next year he would lead three buses, at 47 passengers each.
OneNewsNow correspondent Charlie Butts estimated that 250,000 people attended; Lillian Kwon of The Christian Post estimated 300,000. However, direct observation easily supports the 400,000-person estimate. The crowd was at least as dense as was the crowd for the 9/12 March on Washington last year, and filled 7th Street W, Constitution Avenue, and 1st Street E to the limit of visibility.
The participants varied in age from very young children to elderly people, including several in wheelchairs. (One of Schlafly's marchers, apparently suffering from achondroplastic dwarfism, was still determined to participate, even if in a wheelchair.) Contrary to a report released before-the-fact by Newsweek, many young women were in attendance, and contributed some of the most enthusiastic voices in support of the pro-life position. As the march progressed, sympathetic onlookers lined both sides of Constitution Avenue, and even some office workers watched and waved to the marchers from the roof of an office building overlooking the Mall near the West Lawn.
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WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO! Thanks to all activists.
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OUTSTANDING post!!!
Another wasted group of humanity gathering for their annual feel good pro-life party, meanwhile babies continue to die daily, what are these marches accomplishing, absolutely nothing! Sorry, I’m not impressed.
My daughter was there too. They just got back. My husband just went to pick her up from the bus. Can’t wait to see her pictures and hear all about it! The youth are totally energized in this movement.
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Pro-Life March, A most important point. A shocking and sobering one. Thank you.
What societal presumptions preclude it from being raised more often?
Well, you probably know better than I do. To be brief, the all-fronts obliteration of fatherhood. Men: redundant. Optional. The feminist and genderblender movements, both of which resent the fact that we are a sexually differentiated species.
Oh ........... I love it ... God love her! Here's a friend with my daughter doing the same. (Wonder if there was a long photo-op line at the cutout?) Love your pic too! Barry was too scared to even be in town on Friday. But a cardboard cutout just about sums up his personality!
let’s hope the crowd this year is just as large!
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