What Pro-Life Means to Me
March for Life 2008
January 24, 2008

There is only one choice - life.

What does pro-life mean to you? Grassfire.org is 100% pro-life, and I joined the organization as an intern expressly to champion their pro-life cause and encourage pro-life members to continue the fight against abortionists.

I live every day as a pro-life supporter. I was adopted at 5 months old, and I look at adoption as God's very hand saving me from abandonment or worse, abortion. Pro-life is more than simply opposing abortion, it is a respect for the sanctity of all life, at all stages.

There must be something more.

In regards to abortion, we are not talking about "embryos" or "fetal tissue", we are talking about human beings who have a beating heart and who exist just like me or you.

If we claim the title of "Pro-Lifer" then we must define those responsibilities and champion the definition that to be "Pro-Life" is to protect ife. We must do more.

On Monday, January 21, 2008, I considered myself staunchly pro-life. Passionate about the rights of the unborn and furious about this culture of death that began 35 years ago through the decision of Roe v Wade, I was determined to take a stand against our pro-abortion Congress.

Tuesday night, January 22, 2008 my outlook was turned upside down by the events of the day and forever changed by what I witnessed on the streets of our nation's Capitol. This year, on the 35^th anniversary of a decision that began an infant holocaust, something was different in Washington D.C. There was something more.

Attending the National Memorial for the Pre-born and their Mothers and Fathers was a powerful uniting of the leaders who are in the frontline of the pro-life movement. What we saw at this memorial encouraged our Grassfire Alliance team to storm the offices of our Senators and Representatives. We urged them to support pro-life legislation, and to suspend the $300 million that Planned Parenthood receives every year in taxpayer dollars.

But there was something more.

We marched past the buildings which house the most powerful leaders of our country, we marched past the White House and the leader of our nation, we marched alongside Americans from every state across the U.S. Age, color, race, creed, it didn't matter. Together, we continued to march.

We marched - for every baby that would never take a first step.

As we approached the Supreme Court, cold steel fences barred us from coming closer, and police checkered the steps as if to say "This fence represents more than a physical separation, it represents a separation of what is sacred."

I looked upon the face of a policewoman at the front of the steps, and I wondered if she was affected by the sight of more than 100,000 people fighting for the rights of the unborn. I prayed for this woman. I don't know her story, I just know her role in this debate and I prayed that her eyes would be opened, and that her heart would be changed on this day.

Listening to the testimonies of women who had abortions was a powerful and moving experience. Many of them broke down in tears at regret from their actions, humbling themselves before thousands of people and pleading for change from our government.

I left the March for Life 2008 tired and overwhelmed, but there was still something more.

I left the march determined. I was determined to make a change, determined to start a spark that would ignite a nation for the rights of the unborn. I became determined to stop our government from electing a pro-abortion president.

A few presidential candidates currently pride themselves on championing women's civil rights. However, abortion TAKES AWAY the civil rights of a woman. The numbness, the guilt, the depression that plagues women who have abortions proves that "pro-choice" is a lie.

Abortion is a choice - a choice of convenience.

Today, the only thing holding a decidedly pro-abortion Congress at bay is our Pro-Life President and his promise to protect the sanctity of life. This could change should a Pro-Abortion President reach the White House!

This year - above all others, it is critical that Pro-Lifer's from across the nation vote to stand for the unborn, and reverse this blood culture that has devastated our nation for decades. We must vote for a Pro-Life Presidential Candidate!

We must unite with one voice for the 50 million unborn who were victims of this abortion holocaust. Our greatest resource - life - is being eroded by political leaders and pro-abortion supporters who choose convenience over existence. This year Pro-Lifers must answer the challenge "No Compromises, No Exceptions".

To help Grassfire in it's efforts to reverse the curse of Roe v. Wade, go here.