By Dave Andrusko
As many, or maybe even everyone knows, the DC metropolitan area through much of Virginia and Maryland faces up to three feet of snow in the next day. We’ve been here since 1981 and even though we come from Minnesota, a yard of snow will get your attention.
About 2:00 pm today, I saw this online headline: “Blizzard with ‘life and death implications’ menaces Washington, Mid-Atlantic.” No pro-lifer could miss that there was already something else with life and death implications taking place just as the first snowflakes hit our nation’s capital: the March for Life.
I have no idea how many attended. I do know that a lot of buses cancelled when the drivers/pro-life contingent realized the roads would be nearly impassable beginning later in the afternoon. But of the tens of thousands of hardy souls who did brave the elements, my hat is off to them.
It is being one small component in a very large pro-life army of life-affirming solders that makes me be proud to be one of you. Most pro-lifers can’t make it to DC even in the best of conditions, or perhaps not even to their local rally. Their lives are filled to the brim and of course there are many other productive ways they can forward the cause of life.
But the March remains very important. It is a visible signal (even if it is typically ignored by the mainstream press) that our Movement is alive and well—and filled with many younger people who are already assuming leadership positions, from high school through college to local right to life groups to NRLC state affiliates.
It is a like a flare shot into the sky. A typical March for Life of well over a hundred thousand people makes a bright statement. We are here marching up the hill to the Supreme Court but we are also everywhere. That is the beauty of our Movement. It is built from the bottom up, its sturdy foundation unshakable even when times are especially tough.
Today, as wonderful as it was, as filled with energy as the March for Life was, as impressive a showing as it was, is a waystation to something even bigger.
As Jacki Ragan, NRLC’s jack of all trades, wrote earlier this month,
The important immediate thing to do is attend the March for Life, but then go on and continue to make a difference.
Be a voice for the unborn.
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