NRO: Despite the Republican Party, the March for Life Goes On
(NATIONAL REVIEW) — Moving forward with hope and joy and justice.
The human-rights issue of our lives is abortion. Clearly not everyone sees it that way. It’s buried in euphemisms about women’s health. But follow the science. An unborn child dies.
The March for Life happens every January, marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in all three trimesters. Abortion has become so much more hot-button and angering and confusing than ever. And despite the headlines, increasingly hidden. Chemical abortion eliminates human encounter, unless CVS counts.
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The March for Life just announced a new president. Jennie Bradley Lichter is a wife and mother of three. Her father is a leading intellectual in the pro-life movement, Gerry Bradley at Notre Dame, As deputy general counsel at the Catholic University of America, she spearheaded a program to help mothers on campus — staff and students. Yes, if you’re pregnant, but also long after. Diapers. Food. Parking spaces close to where you need to be. The pro-life movement is not about politics as much as it is about basic resources. Pregnancy-care centers have been demonized in the post-Dobbs era, but they help with clothes and housing and basic skills.
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While the March for Life is about ending abortion, period, they have state marches as well. Lichter says the importance, besides education, is “to show that pro-life Americans are still here, we are still motivated, we will never, ever tire of witnessing together to the beauty and dignity and utter preciousness of human life.”
Outgoing president Jeanne Mancini speaks with great love for the suffering. “We live in a culture with many women and men who have chosen abortion and carry those wounds. Any messaging needs to both speak truth about the inherent dignity of the human person, the destructive nature of abortion to both mom and baby, and be steeped in mercy and hope.”
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