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- Peggy Hartshorn, Ph.D., President of Heartbeat International, since 1993
March for Life 2008: A Unified and Energized Movement For 35 years, pro-lifers from all around the country have gathered for the March for Life in Washington, D.C. to call for the end of abortion. The March is held in January to coincide with the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and although the weather is always brutally cold, the sight of pro-life Americans filling the streets of our nation’s capital is enough to warm our hearts. The 2008 March for Life reaffirmed that our movement is unified and energized. As we marched down Constitution Avenue towards the U.S. Supreme Court, we were surrounded by good-hearted people from all different aspects of the movement: young and old, post-abortive women and men who lost their fatherhood, elected officials, sidewalk counselors, pregnancy center staff and volunteers, students, pastors and priests, and other concerned citizens. They come from various walks of life to demand justice for the unborn. Just a few years earlier, rows of protesters from Planned Parenthood and NARAL would line the street to heckle pro-life markers. This year, there was only one lone pro-abortion protester shuffling aimlessly around the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court. They are demoralized because they know that our movement is winning the hearts and minds of the American people. The clock is ticking on the culture of death in our land. As the March for Life ended and we gathered on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to listen to dozens of post-abortion women tell their stories, it was appropriate to look up at that giant building and read the words engraved along the top: EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW. If we keep working, marching, and praying together, those words will soon be true. Read President Bush’s March for Life remarks here.
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