Yesterday, we honored the incredible fathers we have in our lives. The men who provide daily love, protection, and sacrifice.
We asked our followers on social media “What makes your father extraordinary?”
Their responses showed the supportive and selfless love of fathers.
To all dads who show consistent strength, courage, and love – thank you yesterday, today, and every day.
In Dallas, Texas, a young woman delivered a valedictorian speech to her graduating high school class. Switching her original speech to instead comment on the recent Heartbeat Bill passed in Texas, she said:
In light of recent events, it feels wrong to talk about anything but what is currently affecting me and millions of other women in this state. Starting in September, there will be a ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, regardless of whether the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. Six weeks—that’s all women get.
What is most heartbreaking about this speech is how strongly convinced she, and many other young girls are, of the vicious lie that it is impossible to achieve her dreams and aspirations without the ability to end the life of her unborn child.
The March for Life is dedicated to sharing the truth that motherhood and achieving one’s dreams can go hand in hand!
Last week, a pro-life advocate posted a beautiful response on Facebook sharing her pain from a past abortion and hope for all mothers, facing similar unexpected or difficult pregnancies.
In her post, she shared, “As an immature teenage girl, I believed the lie that ending the life of my child would restore my dreams, my goals and my aspirations… The last thing I would ever want for my beautiful girls is to believe that lie.”
We know the truth is that life empowers and that abortion destroys by taking the life of one and wounding the life of another.
Last year, a brave March for Life attendee sent us these photos of her son on graduation day with these encouraging words: “My son was born days after I completed my first semester at Columbia Law School. I rejected the need to choose between motherhood and my dreams of becoming a lawyer. I would have never graduated with honors or gotten my dream job without him pushing me to be better every single day.”
So many women believe the lie that if you are faced with an unexpected pregnancy, and choose to bring the baby to term, you cannot achieve lifelong dreams and aspirations.
Yet, stories like this graduate show the truth that regardless of your circumstances, it is still possible to fulfill your dreams, accomplish your goals, and have your baby.
Our goal at the March for Life has always been to help bring about a world where the beauty and dignity of every human life is valued and protected. Women do not have to choose between motherhood and their careers and dreams.
Let’s continue to fight to build a culture of life!
A recent opinion article in the New York Times titled “The Sound of Silence on Abortion” caught my attention. For a moment, I was hopeful that the author was calling for a more robust conversation surrounding the topic of abortion in our country, something that we can all agree is needed.
However, I was deeply surprised and troubled when the article went on to directly threaten business owners and call for major corporations to pull out of Texas. Why? Because Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed a pro-life Fetal Heartbeat Bill into law.
This is an intimidation tactic by the pro-abortion media to keep pro-life Americans silent on this most critical issue.
But we can’t and won’t be bullied into silence on the most horrific human rights abuse of our time, abortion.
I believe that now more than ever we must stand up with courage, confidence, and peace for our littlest brother and sisters! Your presence, standing for truth and justice on behalf of the unborn in the public square is desperately needed.
In some small way, the author of the New York Times got it right – no one should be silent or apathetic about abortion. As the largest human rights abuse of our time, this cause deserves our unwavering support and attention.
That is where the public witness of the March for Life, for almost fifty years in Washington D.C., and across the country as we expand our State March program, proves the media wrong; pro-life America will not be intimidated into silence.
With your support, we can show the world just how many millions of Americans support life. Will you join us?
President Joe Biden once said, “Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value.” With his newly released $6 trillion spending proposal that removes the decades-old, bipartisanly supported Hyde Amendment, President Biden has shown the American people exactly what he values.
Eliminates the Hyde Amendment (pg. 807) – which would allow taxpayer funding for abortion on demand through Medicaid, Medicare disability, and other programs funded under the Labor/Health & Human Services appropriations bill. Before the Hyde Amendment took effect in 1980, an estimated 300,000 abortions were performed annually using taxpayer funds. The Hyde Amendment has saved an estimated more than 2.4 million lives since it first became policy in 1976, and it routinely saves more than 60,000 lives in the United States every year.
Eliminates the Dornan Amendment (pg. 1272), which would allow the District of Columbia to fund abortions through its Medicaid program. When the Dornan amendment was last gutted in FY2010, D.C. funded 300 abortions through Medicaid.
Eliminates the Aderholt Amendment (pg. 188), which would lift the Federal ban on gestating gene-edited embryos, such as three-parent embryos.
19% increase in funding for the Title X family planning program by $53.521 million to $340 million from $286.479 million (pg. 438). Once the Biden administration finalizes its new Title X rules, this funding will serve as a slush fund for Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. Biden promised on the campaign trail that the public option would cover abortion on demand.
Calls for making permanent the expanded Obamacare premium tax credits (which subsidize abortion coverage) under the American Rescue Plan Act, and the creation of a so-called “public option” for a government-run health insurance plan offered through the Obamacare exchanges. (pg. 24) Biden promised during his campaign that any public option would cover abortion on demand.
Increases the funding floor earmark for international family planning/reproductive health by $8.7 million to $583.7 million from $575 million (pg. 916). This is a slush fund for international pro-abortion organizations including International Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes International, which can now receive these funds due to Biden’s rescission of Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance.
72% increase in funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) by $23.5 million to $56 million from $32.5 million (pg. 125 of State Dept request). The UNFPA promotes abortions around the world and supports China’s forced abortion and sterilization regime.
Eliminates conditions on U.S. funds to the UNFPA, including requirements that the UNFPA not fund abortions and that funds not be directly used for coercive abortion programs in China (pg. 916)
Adds a sweeping notwithstanding authority for funding “to promote gender equality” overseas, which would bypass the Helms Amendment and Siljander Amendments, to potentially allow taxpayer funding for abortion or abortion lobbying overseas. (pg. 916)
Replaces the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Fund with the ideologically rebranded, “Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund” (pg. 916), made further dangerous by the aforementioned notwithstanding authority for gender equality activities.
Eliminates the application of the Helms Amendment to the Complex Crises Fund (pg. 832), which could allow those funds to pay for abortions
Expands the HIV/AIDS Working Capital Fund (WCF) to include pharmaceuticals and other products for global health activities broadly, including contraceptive commodities, and via funds from non-U.S. Government donors, potentially abortion-related commodities (pg. 901).
Expands the notwithstanding authority for bypassing country prohibitions to include global health activities more broadly, including contraceptives (pg. 916).
Eliminates provisions removing time limitations on embryo storage for IVF procedures funded by the Department of Defense (pg. 329)
The Biden/Harris budget is radically out of touch with the American people on the issue of taxpayer support for abortion. The majority of Americans do not want their tax dollars funding abortion, yet the Biden/Harris administration removed the long-standing – since 1976 – Hyde protections against such a policy. Joe Biden once said, ‘Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.’ Sadly, this administration does not value human life nor does it represent the wishes of mainstream America on such a critical issue.
The Biden/Harris budget is radically out of touch with the American people on the issue of taxpayer support for abortion. The majority of Americans do not want their tax dollars funding abortion, yet the Biden/Harris administration removed the long-standing – since 1976 – Hyde protections against such a policy. Joe Biden once said ‘don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.’ Sadly, this administration does not value human life nor does it represent the wishes of mainstream America on such a critical issue.”
Tom McClusky, president of March for Life Action
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