Why We March: Lindsay

Lindsay is a junior with Mother of Divine Grace.

The moment a woman conceives a child in her womb, that child is alive. He/she is a human being that God has created to serve a purpose in life. Due to abortion, that child will never know what that purpose was. The children that these people are killing could have been saints. They could have been AMAZING people that were going to change the world, but their mothers decided that they don't get to even see light. That is cruel, heartless, and terrible beyond explanation. We are simple humans, and we barely know anything, but some of us apparently think we can choose when a child's life is going to end. This is wrong. It is SO wrong. No one but God has the ability to take someone from this world. I learned that children who are unborn or die close to birth and haven't had the chance to be baptized don't even go to heaven, but go somewhere on the edge of it called Limbo. These children don't even get to see God after this terrible thing happens. The poor children! Abortion is a violent action that cannot be justified. People say babies aren't people until they're born. What makes them any less human than the rest of us? They grow and form, just like we do, so that they can come into the world and serve their purpose. They are not there for you to decide whether they get to live a life or not. Abortion is such a horrible choice to make in life and we need to fight against the people that think it's okay. I march to stomp their evil thoughts into nothing. Life is precious and we need to treat it as such.

Why We March: Rebecca

Rebecca is a senior with Mother of Divine Grace.

 But, I march to save our future generation and to protect those innocent lives shattered by abortion. I march to not only save the helpless babies but the mothers as well, because a lot of them undergo depression, heartache and emotional and physical pain after the horrors of abortion. Another reason why I march is to show the world that all life is precious from the moment of conception to natural death.

As J.R.R. Tolkien says, "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

Why We March: Joy

Joy is a sophomore with Mother of Divine Grace.

I am pro-life for two reasons. One, abortion itself in general is wrong. Two, I can personally relate because I'm adopted.
Abortion is wrong on so many levels. The person who has an abortion is pretty much murdering their child whether they know it or not. You would be lying if you denied that there is an actual human being in the mother's womb and if you believe in the lie that it is only a blob of tissue, then let me ask this question. How does this so called, “blob of tissue” transform into a baby when it is born? How does it receive the gift of life?
I was born in China during the time that the government restricted the amount of children a family could have. Several days after I was born, I was found on the steps of an orphanage. My parents most likely left me because they didn't have enough money to care for me and if they did happen to have another child, having me would've been breaking the law. Breaking this law of having more than one child has serious consequences so my birth mom risked a lot just to be pregnant with me and give birth. I cannot express how grateful I am to my birth parents for choosing life. I have a loving family and some of the most amazing friends who I just love with all of my heart.

These are my reasons for being pro-life and I'm proud of it.

Why We March: Eric

Eric is a senior with Mother of Divine Grace.

I march for the poor MURDERED human beings who cannot defend their lives, but are preyed upon without any say in the matter. Precautions, especially in our day and age, can be taken to not have children, and if you are going to slaughter your innocent child then you should take them. If someone shoots another person, people react in horror and shock, demanding justice to be done to this person, this killer. Murder carries a heavy sentence. Life in prison. The rest of your life to be spent in custody in a penitentiary. This is dealt out many times a year (about 15 thousand times in the U.S.). But how many more times more are children aborted? 652,639!!! And since 1970, there are more than 44,498,750 babies killed. FORTY FOUR MILLION. FORTY FOUR MILLION. I repeated that, because the amount of people that that is is staggering to the mind. Simply count to 44. See how long this takes you, counting one every 24 to 48 HOURS, seeing that that is how long the killing of a baby takes. Then multiply that. One million times. THAT is why I march. To PROTECT humanity from this BRUTALITY AND MURDER. These selfish, stupid, misled, evil, heartless people must be stopped. They just must. 

Why We March: Emilia

I asked some of the people in my school to tell us why they march, and this one comes from Emilia who's a junior with Mother of Divine Grace

'I march because everyone deserves a chance.  I once wrote a song when I was much younger; here are some of the lyrics.

“He could have had a chance

He could’ve made a change

But you cut him off

Before he could even try”

This song is dedicated to all children who have been aborted, past, present, and future.

 So many of these children could’ve been doctors who cured cancer, or missionaries who traveled and brought Jesus to people who had never heard His name.  They could’ve been fathers, mothers, priests, presidents…they could’ve been so many beautiful, honorable things.  But they weren’t given the opportunity.  Because they were 'inconvenient'.  Because they were unwanted.

I march for these babies who don’t have a voice.  I march so that all of them, planned or unplanned, can live and die according to God’s hand.  Not a doctor’s. 

 I march for the future, a future that loves life and embraces it at every stage.  I march for love, and I march for life.