It's the annual March for Life. This year President Trump became the first US president to actually attend the rally.
The rally is the most selfless protest for human rights because each and every person who shows up, young or old, is already born. They personally gain nothing by demanding an end for the slaughter of the unborn.
We all support and are in awe of the bravery of the protesters in places like Hong Kong and Iran who are demanding freedom and an end to tyranny. But those protestors are protesting for something that will make their own lives better.
Pro-life protesters are like the white folk who marched in Civil Rights protests; they are only concerned about helping others not about helping themselves.
Democrat politicians and leftists in general often say that abortion is necessary to keep down crime and welfare costs--both based on the implicit racist and classist assumption that the lives of Blacks and the poor aren't worth living. Which is saying that support abortion for selfish reasons.
Of course the biggest reason that people support abortion is that it is absolutely necessary to live a hedonistic selfish lifestyle.
A normal woman using the Pill has about a 40% chance of one more unplanned pregnancies during her life. That's way to high a chance to let women who use the Pill avoid pregnancies. But many women and most promiscuous men want sex without consequences. After all if a woman could get pregnant and couldn't kill her unborn daughter then men couldn't use her as an object. The financial consequences of 18 years of child support are very high.
Only 0.3% of the nearly 1,000,000 abortions done each year are due to a threat to the life of the mother. Similarly only 0.14% are due to rape. The vast majority of abortions, > 98%, are due to convenience; a woman wanted to have sex but didn't want a kid.
In no other area of American law do we allow someone to kill someone else so as to not suffer the consequences of their actions. Abortion is like saying that a drunk driver could kill someone whose car he rammed to avoid having to pay his victim. Given that 99.86% of abortions are the result of consensual sex it's a simple fact that abortion is the killing of a human being to avoid the consequences of a persons freely chosen acts.
So when you don't hear about the March for Life today remember that each year since 1974, that's 46 years, hundreds of thousands of people have marched in freezing weather not out of any selfish interest but to protect the lives of the most innocent among us; unborn children.
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