Join the Walk for Life  January 25th in San Francisco

Yesterday I was watching coverage of the March for Life in Washington, and tomorrow three
packed buses from my College will embark for the Walk for Life in San Francisco. Forty-one years
since Roe v. Wade, and the pro-life movement is stronger than ever. Did those who pushed legal
abortion on our country think they could get away with it? Did they think the opposition would
blow over in a few years? Did the abortion industry think we would lose interest in opposing what
is so obviously unnatural?

The pro-life movement will never fade away, because it is as natural as breathing. Everyone
knows what it is that a mother carries in her womb, and the perfectly natural act is to bring that
person to birth. Do any species other than human beings abort their unborn offspring? No society
can deny nature indefinitely; Mother Nature, and “Nature’s God” in the words of Thomas
Jefferson, will eventually assert themselves. You can hold your breath for a minute or two, but
eventually you have to breathe. The pro-life impulse in this country is natural; it is the abortion
mentality that is forced and unnatural.

I am always struck by the joy and charity of these pro-life marches, filled with young people and
their indefatigable optimism. They are like World Youth Days, where two million teens can spend
a week in a big city without any crime or disorder. Promoting and living what is proper to our
nature brings joy to all, even those gloomy newscasters. The counter-demonstrators, by contrast,
are violent, vulgar, obscene, and brutal. We walk in witness to the humanity of the unborn child,
but the counter-demonstrators hurl homosexual obscenities at us. Do you get the connection? We
talk life, and they talk sex. The counter-demonstrators unwittingly prove the natural link between
sex and procreation, the severance of which has led to the killing of 1.2 million lives a year in our
country.

Yes, we are in a world of hurt in our country, but the answer is not disrespect or violence. Some
pro-life folks have gone that route, and many pro-abortion folks have gone that route. The answer
is the joyful charity, the patient but firm insistence on what is natural to our species that I see
every year in these marches for life. To those who have had abortions, or who have worked in the
abortion industry, or promoted the culture of death in politics or education, we say: It’s never too
late to rethink what we have been taught, and what we have done. It’s never too late to return to
that which is natural and good.