Youth flock to the March for Life

It has been noted that youth indeed continue to comprise the lion’s share of March for Life attendance, echoing the trend of the pro-life movement overall. And the pro-life group at the Des Moines- area diocesan school is living proof.

Read More

Unpacking from the March for Life

The 2013 March for life has been over for almost a month now, but I feel like I am still unpacking my bag. It’s not the typical unpacking of your toothbrush and PJ’s, but rather the unpacking spiritually, emotionally, and even physically. The same questions pop through my mind every year before the trip: Why do we go? Is it worth it? Are we making a difference?

Read More

Will Obamacare usher in an era of back alley births?

Joy was a sick little girl. Only 14 weeks old since her conception, she was diagnosed with hydroencephaly. That meant her brain wouldn’t develop properly; that it would fill with fluid; that her chance of surviving to birth was bleak; and that if she actually was born, she had minimal chance for any kind of normal life. Her life and death are immediately relevant as Obamacare begins to impose its will on medical decisions.

Read More

An energized “stream of humanity”

With throngs of teens in large groups on the four buses traveling with Iowans for LIFE to Washington D.C. for the March for Life, and with the hundreds of thousands at the March, comprised of large groups, dioceses and parishes from across the nation and beyond, why would one middle-aged man get on a bus from Iowa to go by himself?

Read More

Why does the mainstream media fear the March for Life?

The media knows that they have the power to accelerate the cause of human rights if they were to devote as much coverage to the March for Life as they did to, let’s say, the Occupy Wall Street nut cases. That is their fear. That is why they ignore the March for Life.

Read More