Friday, January 27th marks the day when thousands upon thousands of Americans flocked to the Nations Capital to peacefully protest abortion and remember the more than 55 million Americans who have lost their life.
This event is known as the March for Life, one of the largest pro-life rallies in the world that draws people from all fifty states and countless countries.
This march is held every year in Washington, D.C. on or around the anniversary of the United States Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion in the case of Roe v. Wade in 1973.
This years march marked the 44th Annual March for Life rally, but dont be surprised if you barely saw it covered on the news. The only saving grace was the fact that our Vice President, Mike Pence, came to speak at the rally, becoming the highest ranking government official to speak at the March for Life.
Recent rallies and marches such as the Women's March in Washington held on January 21st, mainstreamed social media and nearly every news station, social media site, and journalistic newspaper.
Think back to just a few years prior in 2014 when the Ferguson riots, certainly containing far less people than the March for Life, got practically 24/7 media coverage.
Just as the media doesnt want to recognize the March for Life rally and give Pro-Life activist acknowledgment, the same holds true for the unborn baby who also has no voice.
Below is a poem I wrote from the perspective of an unborn baby titled "One Glance":
One Glance
I lay all scrunched up inside you mom, but don’t worry I’m quite cozy
Daddy keeps asking you about me, you think he’s getting too nosy
I wonder why you cry when you rub your tummy, don’t you know I’ll meet you soon?
I’ll be born in a couple months. You say you have to see a doctor tomorrow at noon
I wonder if you know that I’m a boy, or that my heart has been beating since week five
I’m still very little, but I’m sure I will be plenty big and strong by the time I arrive
I heard you praying to God today, begging Him to forgive you, but why?
Before I knew it we were at the doctors and you scarily whispered “goodbye”
I lay all scrunched up in Jesus’ arms. His hands created me, now tiny me is who they hold
Jesus said I’m safe now, He told me to wait for you at these beautiful gates of gold
I know you loved me mommy, I just wish you would’ve given me a chance
Maybe you would’ve changed your mind if you were given just one glance
One look at the beautiful human being that you and daddy conceived
You thought getting rid of me was the only option, oh how you were deceived
I watch now from Heaven at the thousands of people marching, even if there’s no guarantee
Someday I hope they make abortion illegal, saving lives that could’ve been me
But for now I will watch the crowd of marchers, people going against Roe v. Wade
I know that one day I will see you again, I just wish that in your womb I would have stayed
To anyone reading just know that I miss my mother, I had rights like you as a human being
And regardless if the media displays the March for Life, murder is never unseeing
