Marching for Life

The liberal media, always knee-jerk pro-abortion in their mentality, are only part of the problem. The other part is a “conservative media” with an enormous amount of influence that nevertheless doesn’t know how to communicate a conservative message. Too many conservatives with media access spend their time entertaining or attacking others, rather than doing the difficult job of researching the issues and informing their audiences. It is also difficult and potentially offensive to some to talk about a moral crisis.

The March for Life on Tuesday is committed to the Human Life Amendment. Its declaration of Life Principles begins by paraphrasing one of America’s founding documents: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all human beings are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which is the right to life…”

If most of the politicians won’t recognize or even acknowledge the words of America’s founders, then perhaps we can educate some of our young people to do so. That’s one reason why I’m going with my wife and children to the March for Life. The tremendous turnout of young people at the annual demonstration is something to experience. They are the hope of America.

Students for Life of America is doing admirable work in this area, constructing Cemeteries of the Innocents around the country. One is outside Jesus the Divine Word Church in Huntingtown, Maryland, where 721 crosses were put in place as a memorial. They represent the number of unborn babies killed every working hour of every working day. It amounts to 28,000 a week.

Those crosses do have an impact. But it also won’t hurt to take another look at Whittaker Chamber’s magnificent Witness, which had such a major influence on Ronald Reagan himself.

Chambers wrote that his wife had almost died from giving birth. He was taking care of her when she told him to go into the nursery to see the beautiful child they had produced. After that, he returned to his wife. She was “no longer only my wife but the mother of our child¯the child we all yearn for, who, even before her birth, had begun, invisibly, to lead us out of that darkness, which we could not even realize, toward that light, which we could not even see.”

Judging by where most of the candidates come down on the issue, and their general failure to address our moral decline as a nation, it will surely get darker in America. We are no longer truly free if freedom continues to be denied to the most innocent and defenseless among us.

Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of Accuracy in Media, and can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org. This column is excerpted from a special report he wrote for AIM that can be found here. For another view on alternatives to abortion from Priests for Life seminarian Dave Begany, click here.