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What YOU Can Do at the March for Life

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What YOU Can Do at the March for Life

As you know, the March for Life and the pro-life movement are never reported by most of the media accurately.  This year, the March for Life is sponsoring a “TweetFest” to encourage pro-lifers at the March or around the country to show their support for life on Twitter to amplify our message, using the hashtag, #WhyWeMarch.  Click on the image below for more information.

Additionally, we’re partnering with EWTN Productions to bring you LIVE 360o video footage of the rally and March for Life that anyone will be able to watch online, on Facebook, or on the March for Life app.  The March for Life app will be ready for download from iTunes and Google Play shortly before the March and will feature important resources for your trip to Washington, D.C. for the March for Life, but also educational resources, and advocacy tools to help you make a difference for life all year long.

We are also excited to share that you can stay in touch year-round with the March for Life through mobile alerts.  You can sign up HERE to receive messages from the March for Life about pro-life events, advocacy action items, education opportunities, and later this year, information about the 2015 March for Life.

Will you be bringing your video camera to the March for Life?  We also wanted to let you know about an opportunity with the Media Research Center.  See below for how you can participate in a documentary about the March for Life.

There’s so much you can do to participate in this important event – whether you are physically present or supporting us from home!  There are many opportunities for unity and collaboration in bringing attention to the March for Life so that we can one day see an end to abortion in America.

From Media Research Center:

In 2013, the networks spent a mere 17 seconds on the half million participants at the 40th March for Life (in comparison, they spent 521 times more on the Manti Te’o football scandal). The life censorship only continued with the trial of Kermit Gosnell and beyond. Simply put, the old media fear giving pro-lifers the coverage a movement of this size and vitality deserves. 

In response, MRC will produce a film from a compilation of amateur March for Life footage. If you plan to attend the March as an individual, with a church group or other organization, please document your experience and allow us to share it with the world.  Press release below: 

MRC March for Life Documentary Submission

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 9, 2014

CONTACT: Katie Yoder at kyoder@mrc.org 

The Media Research Center (MRC), in conjunction with national pro-life organizations, is producing a documentary on the March for Life to fight against the media censorship on abortion — and we need your help! To pull this off, we’re asking pro-lifers to contribute by donating their footage preparing for/attending the 41st March for Life in Washington, D.C.

Who: YOU (the pro-life movement)

What: A campaign by the Media Research Center’s Culture and Media Institute (CMI) to unite the pro-life movement by creating a documentary from clips by pro-lifers across the nation preparing for and attending the 41st March for Life. 

How: Take footage with your camera or phone and send it to us through Google Drive (for those who have Gmail) or upload to YouTube and email us the link at MarchForLife@mrc.org!

What we’re looking for:

·         Footage of you and/or your friends looking into the camera (either individually or as a group) and saying, “I am pro-life.”

·         Footage of you and your friends briefly saying why you are pro-life or why you are attending the March

·         Behind-the-scenes footage of you and/or your group preparing for/attending the March. This can include footage of creating signs, your bus ride into D.C., planning meetings, marching to the Supreme Court, etc. Be creative!

Deadline: We will begin compiling videos as soon as the March finishes. Please send your footage no later than January 29, 2014. MRC will publish the documentary online.

Last request: Please tell your family/friends to submit their footage too by sharing this release via Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and other social media mediums. 

Please direct comments and questions to Katie Yoder at kyoder@mrc.org or post your inquiries to our Facebook page.

DISCLAIMER: By submitting video, each participant agrees to the MRC’s use of participant’s information and video footage. Each participant also agrees that he/she originally owns all rights to his/her video. The MRC does not guarantee t
he use of every video submitted. 

The Media Research Center, the nation’s premier media watchdog, is a research and education organization operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

— Katie Yoder is Staff Writer, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and Media at the Media Research Center.

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5 Days of Life: Congress Remembers Roe

For the second year in a row the House Leadership has scheduled a recess during the week of the annual March for Life.  Regardless a number of pro-life men and women went to the House floor to talk about the importance of the life issue.  This is from a friend on the Hill:

Pro-life Groups:

 

Last night Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) organized an opportunity for Members of Congress to speak in remembrance of the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade and its devastating effects on women and children. 

You may be interested in the following videos speeches given today:

 

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ)

Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL)

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC)

Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL)

Rep. Robert Latta (R-OH)

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)

Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-MN)

Rep. Bill Huizinga (R-MI)

Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO)

Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI)

Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-IL)

Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS)

Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN)

Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD)

Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO)

Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX)

Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA)

Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC)

Rep. Dan Benishek (R-MI)

Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ)
Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL)

Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ)

 

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Working to End the Divisiveness of Abortion

Guest Blog Post by Katherine Rosario

The March for Life is a sign of unity in a society that is riddled with division.  The March for Life is a time for hope and strength, when hundreds of thousands gather in our nation’s capital to stand for the lives of the unborn.  January 22, 2013 marked the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that along with an accompanying ruling in Doe v. Bolton, allowed abortion on demand in all 50 states.   More than 500 thousand people gathered to March and witness to the value and dignity of every human life.

This unified statement stands in contrast with the division we see almost everywhere in society.  The 113th Congress was the “least productive” in recent history in terms of the number of bills that became law (though legislating for the sake of legislating is a step backward if bad bills become law).  Examples of division abound in our culture. The issue of abortion is itself divisive, but the tide is turning and America is becoming increasingly pro-life. 

What could be more divisive than the physical separation of a child from his or her mother when developing in the safety of the womb during an abortion?   As the Gospel of John 17:20-24 tells us, Christ’s prayer for the world was that we would “all be one,” as He and the Father are one.  Why?  He wants to give us the glory which the Father has given Him.    

Whether our pro-life convictions are founded on religious beliefs coupled with rational thought and science, or whether we are motivated by science alone, the March for Life is a moment of profound unity in a divided, deceptive culture (think of the lies told by the abortion giant, Planned Parenthood).

While there is always a place for optimism and positivity, we cannot forget what an uphill battle we face, both at a cultural and political level.  President Obama’s signature achievement, Obamacare, opens doors to potential new streams of abortion funding for Planned Parenthood and other elective abortion providers and entangles taxpayer funds in abortion coverage offered on state and federal exchanges.  The great injustice of abortion pervades our society, sometimes at levels which the average person leading their daily life does not have time to notice. 

That’s why the March for Life is so important. 

It helps prevent numbness to the great evil that is abortion from setting in.  And, since the society’s position on abortion is a matter of life or death, there is no room for silence in this debate.  The March for Life is our yearly loud speaker. It’s an ideal opportunity to increase awareness of the evils and dangers of abortion – to women, children, families, the economy, and society as a whole – drawing strength from one another as we march.    

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6 Days of Life: Crunching the Numbers of the Abortion Industry

Today the Family Research Council released a new paper looking at the “Demographics of Women Who Report Having an Abortion.” 

The press release has some (but not all) of the highlights:

Among the MARRI paper’s significant findings on women who reported having an abortion:

* The majority of those who abort have one abortion only: Whereas about five percent of ever-pregnant women report having two or more abortions, 15 percent report having one.

* Abortion occurs most widely among younger women: Among women who report having had one or more abortions, nearly half are 20 years old or younger, and three-quarters are 24 or younger.

* Women with multiple sexual and cohabiting partners have a markedly higher abortion rate: Nearly 90 percent of women who report one or more abortions have had three or more male sexual partners.

* Almost 60 percent of women who report one or more abortions have cohabited with two or more men.

* Abortion rate is lower among women from biologically intact or intact, adoptive families: Whereas about 26 percent of women from broken families report some abortion history, only 16 percent of women from biologically intact families or intact, adoptive families report abortion history.

* No marked difference in abortion rates across income categories, no clear relationship detectible between abortion rates and education: Abortion rates do not vary markedly among women of the different income categories assessed in this report.

* No clear relationship or pattern is detectible between abortion rates and women of particular educational attainment levels.

To read the paper, click here: http://marri.us/abortion-demographics

The study found that while abortion rates don’t vary much between income levels with race it is a different.  African American women have the highest abortion rate, finding that 27.8 percent of African American women who have been pregnant have had an abortion (compared to 15 percent of Hispanic women and 19.9 percent of white non-Hispanic women.) 

FRC is not the only organization looking at some of the numbers going around the abortion issue. 

This week Americans United for Life released its annual ranking of states by their anti-abortion laws. Louisiana tops the list with the strictest abortion laws, followed by Oklahoma, Arkansas, Pennsylvania and Texas. Washington state ranked on the other end of the list, with the most-lenient laws, followed by California, Vermont, New York and Connecticut. The pro-abortion group National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) tried to horn in on the action by releasing their own scorecard.  California, who basically passed a law allowing for your plumber to do an abortion, ranks first on their list. 

The top 10 states on AUL’s annual ranking received F’s on NARAL’s report card while states at the bottom of AUL’s list received an A+, A or A- from NARAL.

Considering most of the numbers on abortions are controlled by the very people who profit from them I am glad that groups like FRC and AUL are taking a closer look at the industry.