'Every human life is priceless': Why we march

As we gather today for the 52nd annual March for Life – the world’s largest yearly quality rights objection – we mark a clip of caller beginnings. Earlier this week our country welcomed a caller statesmanlike administration, and, person to home, our enactment besides begins a caller play of leadership. 

It has undoubtedly been the grant of a lifetime to service this unthinkable enactment – and the corporate millions of marchers – for the past 12 years, but I americium delighted to present walk this work to Jennie Bradley Lichter, with assurance that she is the pistillate meant to lead the March for Life and the pro-life community successful this adjacent season.  

With specified breathtaking changes, it is besides bully to callback what is unchangeable; the happening that draws countless radical to Washington, D.C., twelvemonth aft twelvemonth and that which makes the March for Life great. 

March For Life motion reads "Love Them Both," successful Washington, D.C., connected Jan. 21, 2022. (Fox News Digital)

I’m referring to the foundational values that anchor our efforts, remembering that all human life, calved and unborn, has inherent dignity and worth that deserves to beryllium protected and supported successful families, communities and by law. The unborn are the poorest of the poor, the astir vulnerable, and they are worthy of each imaginable protection we can offer. I can’t deliberation of a much worthy cause. 

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This year’s theme, Life: Why We March, highlights our tendency to refocus connected these attractive, commonsense and basal fundamentals of life. These see the information that each life has inherent dignity and that subject shows that life begins astatine the infinitesimal of conception oregon fertilization. The bosom of the pro-life movement is astir providing the resources and enactment large women and families need, and last, we need to proceed to utilize the powerfulness of witnesser and storytelling to alteration hearts and minds.  

Science intelligibly shows that life begins astatine the infinitesimal of conception/fertilization. From that infinitesimal connected a caller human life in the womb possesses its own genetically unsocial DNA, antithetic from its parent and father. At conscionable six weeks, expectant parents tin spot and perceive their child’s heartbeat and by 12 weeks each different organs person formed. 

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These are lone a fistful of the galore moments of gestational improvement that springiness witnesser to the world that each life is unrepeatable, inherently valuable, and deserving of our emotion and protection.   

Tragically, we live successful a civilization that presents confusing messages to women successful this regard, presenting the mendacious thought that termination is indispensable to flourish and succeed. Yet the tragic world is that 60% of women who had abortions would person preferred to springiness commencement if they felt they had the affectional oregon fiscal enactment they needed. 

Women request to cognize that they are beardown and capable, and the pro-life community volition emotion and enactment them agelong aft their kid is born. That’s why there are approximately 3,400 community-based maternity homes and gestation assets centers across America that assistance women successful request who privation to support their children.  

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Denying the inherent worth and dignity of unborn children done elective termination has scarred innumerable women, families and doctors, and, of course, robbed america of hundreds of thousands of guiltless and precious children each year. The speakers who code the March for Life this year, from a antheral who survived a botched termination to a erstwhile abortionist, person travel to stock their grounds and radiance airy connected the calamity of abortion, portion serving arsenic a beacon of anticipation for our future.  

Sometimes we forget that termination impacts existent radical for the remainder of their lives. But by boldly sharing our stories, we can remind women and families astir america that their lives, as well arsenic their child’s, are worthy of emotion and protection. There is spot successful our voices and powerfulness successful our presence. 

We march for unborn children successful the womb, each of whom merit emotion and life. But being pro-life goes acold beyond protecting those inactive successful the womb; we stand by and enactment each struggling parent and household arsenic they welcome new life into the world. We also march for the erstwhile abortionists, those who person survived abortions, and the women who person suffered the carnal and affectional symptom of abortion.  

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Our connection is simple, nonstop and clear: each human life from the infinitesimal of conception deserves our respect and protection, and we are present to enactment those lives each measurement of the way. The outpouring of emotion and enactment shown by the pro-life community indispensable service arsenic a guiding airy successful the midst of truthful overmuch darkness.  

So the satellite continues to alteration arsenic it ever will, but the goals of the March for Life remain steadfast and true. We will proceed to affirm the beauteous information that unborn children are adjacent members of our quality family, connection resources and enactment to women and families successful need, and fto our witnesser archer the communicative that each human life is priceless and the calamity of termination harms america all. And that is why we march.  

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