Life at the Frontier: Marching for Life, 2018

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Marching for Life, 2018

Hundreds of thousands of people in the March for Life surging toward the Supreme Court.

I participated on Friday, January 19th in the 45th annual March for Life in Washington, DC. This year's March, commemorated the infamous 1973 Supreme Court abortion decisions that imposed abortion on demand in the United States and the over sixty million abortions occurring since then.

Marchers came to DC in an environment of new hope and with determination to see real progress toward the protection of human lives in the womb. Still, it was important for the people to come and both encourage and hold accountable our new leaders, and to be a witness to the nation and the world. And come we did, with estimates of up to several hundred thousand participants.

I started the day at an 7:30 AM Mass at St. Mary's Church, attended by locals and others from distant states. Then it was over to join the Family Research Council's ProLifeCon social media conference (video replay available), featuring some key leaders and other amazing people in the prolife movement.

From there, I headed to the March for Life Rally on the Mall at 12th St. The crowds around there were large, but I got close enough that I could hear the start of the Rally proceedings and see the Jumbotron screen where Pres. Trump was visible, addressing the crowd via video from the White House Rose Garden. I then made my way several blocks east along to Constitution Ave. to be at the front of the March to take some good pictures.

After joining some other photographers near the top of Capitol Hill for a while to capture the huge oncoming March, and then spending even more time in front of the Supreme Court, I eventually went to end this awesome day joining friends and other marchers in celebration at DC's famous Irish pub, The Dubliner.