March for Life 2012 draws 500,000

WASHINGTON, DC - The March for Life on Monday, January 23 saw half a million people take to the streets of the nation’s capital to share their pro-life convictions and join together for the common cause of stopping abortion.

According to LifeNews, an estimated 500 thousand people attended the 2012 March for Life once again breaking the record for the largest human rights demonstration of its kind. This year the majority of marchers were under the age of 25.

They were touring the Capitol, enjoying the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall, pushing strollers around the monuments, singing, and holding yellow balloons in mitten-clad hands. They were everywhere. They were March for Life participants, visiting Washington, D.C. on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision to protest the legalization of abortion--and they are getting younger and more vocal each year.

Do you know that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management shut the federal government in the National Capital Region on the morning of the March for Life - January 23, 2012 - supposedly due to ice on the roads?

Yet, many employees found there was no more ice on the DC roads than was the case on many other days when there was no delayed arrival. Moreover, weather delays are usually announced in the early morning of the workday in question - once current conditions can actually be assessed - and lead to a 2 hour delayed arrival. This time, OPM made the announcement at 6:50 p.m. the night before, with the unusual proviso that the government not open until 11 a.m. Thus costing the taxpayer up to 5 hours’ worth of adminstrative leave for each employee who normally begins work between 6 & 10 a.m., as almost all do.

Arguably, the above wasteful directive issued to avoid media reports on the impact of 500,000 pro-life marchers in the downtown DC area during rush hour.

http://www.opm.gov/status/pastStatus.aspx?q=420he

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