Media Malpractice at 2010 March for Life

Interesting article about this: 
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/01/23/newsweek-could-have-just-asked-colleagues-wapo-about-young-pro-life-w

Michelle Boorstein of the Post talking about young people at the March in 2006:  Later in the article, Boorstein also described later how “[t]he mood [at the March] was closer to a party than a political protest, and the soundtrack of the day was the laughter of young people.”

I guess when you lose the young people you might as well pack it in, huh?  Since they are the ones having the babies and all.

How incredibly revealing.  So many people get into the media so they can “change the world”, but they do it with their own bias.  It’s SO WRONG to blatently lie about anything- the ends DOES NOT justify the means.

Pathetic.

Thanks to those who marched on Washington - keep up the good work!

Thanks David. Very encouraging.

Some years ago I watched an “interview” with a spokesman at a pro-life march.  The spokesman went through all the positive talking points really well, was very gracious toward women who faced difficult choices, etc.  But the reporter pushed and pushed for an answer to one question: “do you think abortion is justified when a woman has been raped.”  He answered that that was a very small percentage of cases, etc. etc. but in the end said “two wrongs don’t make a right.”  The headlines the next day read “Pro-lifers would force raped women to bear children,” and that’s all that the article talked about.

I haven’t gone to the March in the last several years, but I used to go every year. This definitely looks to me like the largest yet. Every time I went, I called my husband from the rest stop on the way home to ask what the TV was saying about it, and every year the news people grossly underestimated the number of marchers. It was frustrating. We, the marchers, rode on a bus for many hours, sometimes marched in freezing temperatures, had very little rest, and ended up with very sore feet. It felt like the impact our efforts might have had was lessened by the false reporting. I really believe that abortion is a religion to the left - not a necessary evil as they often claim, but a positive good in their minds, and they’ll do anything to keep it legal.

I went to the first march in 1974, and in 75, 76, and 77…and by then I had too many little children to manage it.  I started going again about 5 years ago. 
One difference which I have noted is that back in the 70’s the March, judging by the banners, was about half evangelical Protestant, half Catholic.  Now you see a few banners from Protestant churches but just not all that many. Last year I did see a banner from the Charismatic Episcopal Church, and the year before I saw NOEL (before their name change I believe.)  I saw one “Lutherans for LIfe” in 2009.  This year I saw the banners of two Protestant congregations.  While one only sees what is right around one in such a huge crowd,  the Protestant presence is really dwarfed by the Catholic presence.  Along the East coast, many Catholic parishes send a bus of people who walk with a banner saying “ST X Parish is Pro LIfe”  From farther away,  the midwest, Louisiana,  some dioceses send busloads of young people.  Catholic high schools and colleges send buses of people.  But what happened to all those Evangelical Protestant churches which used to send buses?  I would like to ask those reading, if you live within a day’s bus ride to DC,  to see if you can organize your church to go to the march next year.  Maybe your junior high and high school youth group can make a banner for the church to carry, a project through which you can teach both family life values and being a responsible citizen.  And those of you who are ministers or priests; preach about this! 
Please join us at the March for LIfe next year!
Susan Peterson

This is the address of my Facebook album of pictures from the March. It is set so that ‘everyone’ can see it.  I honestly don’t know if that means even people who aren’t on Facebook or not, but give it a try. 

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=49542&id=1389446706

The two individual Protestant churches whose signs I got a picture of were called “Shepherds’ Gate” Church and “Immanuel” Church.  I don’t know anything about them.

Susan Peterson

The MSM is propaganda not news.

A nuclear-strength weapon in the fight is the internet.  So far, it isn’t controlled by one side or the other, except in the number of “laypeople” mobilized to use it effectively.  MSM can be trumped by videos, blog posts, and websites that “go viral.”  Anybody can play.  Even those stuck at home without the ability to march on Washington.  Tweeting or posting to Facebook, etc., is simple, quick, and free.

Just do it.

I think many pro-life evangelicals are there at the march…I know many…but the problem developing in evangelicalism is that you have the “emergent” and “neo-evangelical” elements coming in, which don’t like to confront life issues very loudly, out of fear of being seen as “dogmatic”, “fundamentalist”, “archaic”, “unwelcoming”,or “religious”.  I know…I was a fan of the “emergent” thing while still a protestant.  Not so much, now that I’m an Anglo-Catholic.

I watched live video of the March from ETWN on my com puter. Before the March started off, I heard Jewish, Orthodox, and Catholc speakers. The last march I attended was in 2003 before my son left for the Marines, and we saw a number of Protestant groups, particularly Lutherans. I think it’s really importnat for pro-life people who are not Cahtolics toattend, because that makes it a moral issue, not just a Catholic issue, as it’s often perceived to be.