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Written by Emily Belz

January 24, 2011, 6:13 PM

Emily0124b WASHINGTON— As they mark the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, the tens of thousands of pro-lifers that fill the National Mall each January for the March for Life are used to cold weather, and in more recent years they’ve been used to getting a cold shoulder from the Democratic-controlled Congress.

Monday brought especially bitter cold to Washington, D.C., but the mood was warm and the turnout was high. Support for the pro-life cause has continued to grow, and the largest pro-life congressional class since Roe v. Wade just took office in the House (see “Legislating for life,” Jan. 29, 2011, issue). No pro-abortion protestors were immediately visible along the length of the crowd, which marched a mile from the mall to the Supreme Court. A boy scraped a message with a stick in the gravel on the mall: “Go babies!” . . . MORE >>

Read Emily Belz’s complete report from Washington here.

Topic: Abortion, News Desk

Keywords: Congress, pro-life, Washington D.C.

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BY Buzzy 01.24.11 AT 8:58 PM

Thanks for the report Emily. My three teens, their cousins, and some friends all went together. This is the first information I have about what they might have experienced.
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BY the real Aj 01.24.11 AT 9:55 PM

Buzzy,

It’s funny that you mentioned the younger relatives going after I had just read the story below.. That seems to be a very positive trend. Some of them get. That’s very encouraging for the future. The inclusion of groups like Silent No More is helping educate them on the aftermath that can follow an abortion. That’s a message that needs to be heard.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2006/jan/06012403

“More and more the annual Marches for Life in Ottawa and Washington are represented by the young who have survived an entire generation of abortion. The Syracuse Post Standard paper reported that the overwhelming majority of the marchers, estimated at over a hundred thousand, had not yet been born when Roe v. Wade made abortion legal in the US.”

“Some of notable features of the event included the growing presence of women with signs reading, “I regret my abortion.” The women are part of the Silent No More campaign that made its first appearance at the Washington march in 2003 and have been a presence at the Canadian march in recent years.

Christopher Smith, the Republican congressman from New Jersey, said the Silent No More women “are proof that there is reconciliation and there is hope.”

We are so glad to have the women of Silent No More here with us on the stage. Their testimony gives witness to the lie that the other side puts forth, that abortion is pro-woman,” Smith said.”
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BY Buzzy 01.24.11 AT 10:43 PM

Real AJ – thanks for the link. One thing I found interesting in the story was that a group from Princeton went. In today’s Washington Post, the article covering the event had an accompanying photo that included a “Yale for Life” sign. Also, I know that Harvard has a small but active pro-life student group. I find these developments to be encouraging for two reasons: first, the Ivys are utlra-liberal by nature, so it shows that even in the most hostile territory inroads are being made; and second, these are smart kids who will be leaders in the future.
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BY KI 01.25.11 AT 10:24 AM

This is encouraging. I am currently reading an older book on Wilberforce’s fight against slavery. It is also encouraging to read that history and how society’s views changed so dramatically, but gradually, over so many decades. At any rate, I never want to be in the position to have to say, “I was silent.”
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BY godschild 01.25.11 AT 10:51 AM

Excellent article! Thanks Emily!
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BY buddyglass 01.25.11 AT 1:30 PM

Here’s a question for the peanut gallery. Without using search engines, who wrote the following passages (all emphases mine):

Neither the boy nor the girl knows the difference between the sexual impulse and love. A boy meets a girl, he feels a great attraction for her, he feels the sexual impulse throbbing within him, he is full of this life-giving current, he feels it throughout his being; he walks lighter and straighter, he feels it in his voice, in his laughter; he grows tenderer within himself, and to women. He feels all this and is sure it is a love that will never die. If there is an attraction on the girl’s part there is no difficulty in persuading her that this feeling is love.

But it is not love; it is the creative force or sexual impulse scattered through his being and the sexual act that brings it to a focus.

If motherhood comes to a girl through this relation, she has developed and the experience has enriched her life. But today the girl has an idea she has escaped the greatest disgrace when she has avoided motherhood. If the relation was based on physical attraction alone, a few abortions and the monotony of everyday life soon remove this, and the man goes elsewhere in search of this wonderful sensation which he felt at first, but did not know how to keep or how to use.

Also…

That the male creature is the pursuer of the female in all forms of life, there is no question, but that the female has the choice of selection and uses fine discrimination in her choice, cannot be denied either. This instinct of selection seems to lie dormant in women of today, for at puberty nature calls to every girl to make a selection suitable to her nature. Yet few girls follow this instinct on account of the specter of economic insecurity which loos up before them. Instead of asking themselves: “Are we matable and sympathetic?” they ask “Shall we have enough food, clothing and shelter?”

And…

The sexual impulse is natural. It is natural in animals, in degenerates, and in man. But in man it is mixed with other essentials which together are termed love. These essentials are derived from man’s power of reasoning by which he is known as a higher species and through which he differs from the animals.

It is well to understand that the natural aim of the sexual impulse is the sexual act and the natural aim of the sexual act is reproduction, though it does not always result in this. It is possible for conception to take place without love, it is even possible that there is no conscious knowledge to procreate before or during the act, yet this does not disprove the fact that nature has designed it for the purpose of reproduction, no matter what uses man has put it to today.

Every girl should know that to hold in check the sexual impulse, to absorb this power into the system until there is a freely conscious sympathy, and a confidence and respect between her and her ideal, will go toward building up the sexual impulse and will make the purest, strongest and most sacred passion in adult life, compared to which all other passions pale into insignificance.

And…

In the boy or girl past puberty we find one of the most dangerous forms of masturbation, i.e. mental masturbation, which consists of forming mental pictures, thinking of obscene or voluptuous pictures. This form is considered especially harmful to the brain, for the habit becomes so fixed that it is almost impossible to free the thoughts from lustful pictures. Every girl should guard against the man who invariably turns a word or sentence into a lustful, or commonly termed, “smutty” channel, for nine times out of ten he is a mental masturbator.

Perhaps the greatest physical danger to the chronic masturbator is the inability to perform the sexual act naturally. The strong physical irritants which are used are likely to produce catarrhal disease of these organs in both sexes, producing such irritating sensations that relief is demanded, and this can be obtained only by repeating the habit, and so it continues. The individual promises himself over and over again after such exercises to overcome the habit, but his will power gradually becomes destroyed and the impulse continues. He knows and intuitively feels that such practice degrades him and destroys his character; he feels he is losing control of himself, and also realizes that his health, especially his nervous system, is being undermined.

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