It is a “lazy slander” that the pro-life movement doesn’t care about babies after they are born. It’s a lie. It’s based on the inordinate public attention that is, necessarily, paid to abortion politics. Obviously, whether the abortion happens or not makes all the difference in the life of the unborn child and his or her mother. But what comes after also matters. It is why every January there is a March for Life in Washington, D.C. And while the media recaps of the event tend to be about the politicians who headline the rally before the march, these are, in some senses, the sideshow. Young people make the March for Life.
Ten years ago at the march, I was onstage and took a few pictures of what was in front of me. So many thousands of high school and college students. The photo from this year is similar. Different faces, same ages. Young people with their lives ahead of them, as we say, perhaps in the throes of pending decisions about college, about marriage, or, in this crowd, about a possible religious vocation.
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