By Dave Andrusko
You would never know it by the coverage on the three “major” networks—CBS, NBC, and ABC—but there was a massive rally held last Friday in our nation’s capital. It’s called the March for Life, and if you took the time to watch what was likely well over 100,000 people stream down Constitution Avenue on their way to the Supreme Court, it seemed as if there was no end to the assembly.
Each year, Newsbusters, to its credit, faithfully exposes how the networks consciously decide to pretend the March does not exist. As Kristine Marsh explained, if you add the 13 seconds of coverage on Saturday, “[T]hat brings the March for Life’s 2020 total on the flagship (morning and evening) newscasts to 28 seconds, leaving NBC as the lone network to have ignored it.”
To be clear, ordinarily we wouldn’t blink an eye at such partisan posturing. That’s what the networks do, that’s who they are. They live to be biased and unfair to anything that celebrates the cause of life.
But last Friday was different. For the first time—the first time ever—a President of the United States came to the rally on the National Mall and addressed that huge throng in person. That is a big deal and you would expect the networks would devote air time to the March if only to take potshots at someone they hate—President Trump.
On Friday we reposted President Trump’s entire speech. It was that memorable. Here is the link to the story. What follows are just three of many passages we could highlight.
#1. “All of us here today understand an eternal truth: Every child is a precious and sacred gift from God. Together, we must protect, cherish, and defend the dignity and sanctity of every human life.
“When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God’s creation. When we hold a newborn in our arms, we know the endless love that each child brings to a family. When we watch a child grow, we see the splendor that radiates from each human soul. One life changes the world.”
It is not a unique thing for me to say that the word unique is overused, misused, and abused. “Unique” doesn’t merely mean special, it means one of a kind.
What separates those of us on the life side of the abortion issue from those on the “choice” side goes beyond an appreciation that each one of is one-of-a-kind. We grasp, they don’t, that unborn children are not like widgets which you can toss one away and replace with an indistinguishable other .
The destruction of each flesh and blood unborn baby—our flesh and blood unborn baby—means we have heartlessly extinguished the life of an irreplaceable member of the human family.
#2. “Together, we are the voice for the voiceless. When it comes to abortion … Democrats have embraced the most radical and extreme positions taken and seen in this country for years, and decades — and you can even say for centuries. Nearly every top Democrat in Congress now supports taxpayer-funded abortion, all the way up until the moment of birth.”
Almost on cue, pro-abortion Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, tap danced around the question of whether he supported any limits on abortion at a Fox News’ town hall Sunday night. He doesn’t, of course, but took refuge in the non-answer that abortion should not be “dictated by any government official.”
Whomever the Democrats choose as their presidential candidate, his or her position will 180 degrees away from the position of pro-life President Trump. And…
#3. “We cannot know what our citizens yet unborn will achieve, the dreams they will imagine, the masterpieces they will create, the discoveries they will make. But we know this: Every life brings love into this world. Every child brings joy to a family. Every person is worth protecting. And above all, we know that every human soul is divine, and every human life — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of Almighty God.
“Together, we will defend this truth all across our magnificent land. We will set free the dreams of our people. And with determined hope, we look forward to all of the blessings that will come from the beauty, talent, purpose, nobility, and grace of every American child.”
In this observation, President Trump exhibited in full the optimism—the hope for the future—that is at the core of the pro-life philosophy.
We do not fear unborn children, we embrace them.
We do not share the cramped pro-abortion mindset that sees in unborn babies only limits imposed on us. We see their potential—both in what they will do for themselves and for mankind and for the goodness they will draw from us.
You can watch the President deliver his remarks here. If you wish to the see all the speeches, along with many helpful interviews before and after the march, go to EWTN.