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Today (Fri., Jan 24th 2020) is the annual March for Life,

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. . . which, we will monitor and update across the day, including DV, inputs from our person on the ground as usual.

March for Life logo

This year, of course, will be the first MfL attended and addressed in person by a President of the United States, here, Mr Donald Trump. Other speakers will be present and hopefully we will not see the sort of agit prop media stunt and smear game that happened last year, leading to a lawsuit that was just settled by CNN after attempts to dismiss it failed.

Today’s schedule:

Friday, January 24, 2020

  • March for Life Expo: 8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
  • Pre-Rally Concert: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
  • Rally Program and March: 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
  • Rose Dinner Cocktail Hour: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
  • Rose Dinner: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

We will monitor and update, adding across the day.

Backgrounder, a media discussion, 2018:

Remember, what is at stake is the deliberate mass slaughter of our living posterity in the womb, with a global toll of 800+ millions across 40+ years, growing at about a million more per week. (That’s a conservative calculation, on a modelled plateau since the 1990’s, the statistical report, 1.4 billion, has some credibility.) That makes this the worst mass killing in history, utterly dwarfing any other and warping government, law, law enforcement, media, professions and culture at large.

Arguably, this is the linchpin established evil of our time; given that mass blood guilt is perhaps the most corrupting, most subtly corrosive influence of all — how will our civilisation ever find absolution for this?

How will we defend our civilisation and our souls, finding a road to reformation, cleansing and transformation?

Where, as pace-setting country, the USA has responsibility far beyond its own 60+ million toll.

U/D1, 7:34 EC: Mr Trump’s pre-march message:

U/D2, 1245hrs: First video MfL 2020:

Gathering for MfL 2020

Some pictures:

MfL2020–determination to defend life
MfL 2020 — Panda says, save the baby humans

And, Mother Teresa has some words for us on domino effects:

MfL 2020: Domino effects . . .

U/D 3, 1305: A first vid message:

A first video message, a call to unity in repentance

U/D 4, 1354: Mr Trump’s speech (from Breitbart):

US President Trump speaks at the 2020 MfL — a first for a sitting President

U/D 5, 1500 hrs; Native American/ Amerindian voices:

MfL 2020, Native American/ Amerindian voices speak up for life (which quietly but firmly answers the agit prop stunt that used that ethnicity last year)

U/D 6, 1549 hrs: Statistics for the American Abortion Holocaust:

Abortion statistics, National Right to Life, from Guttmacher (PP) and CDC

U/D 7, 1630 hrs: Some results from estimated global abortion rates, where it is hard to get hard, standardised figures:

Global abortion rates estimates and suggestive trends

If the Guttmacher estimate of 2016, of 56 million abortions is reasonable, that may be up to a 2/3 under estimate. (Note discussions here and here.)

U/D81945 hrs: For the inevitable crowd game, here is an early crowd with the Washington monument in view:

Then, later in the day (HT: GP):

Work in progress . . .

Comments
EG, the acceptable rate of holocaust is zero. KFkairosfocus
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Update 2: Gathering for the march, and first video. Our man is on the ground; DV, more to follow. KFkairosfocus
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I am comforted by the fact that abortion rates continue to decline as education and access to effective birth control increase. We will never get to the point of zero abortions, but any decline in unwanted pregnancies is good news.Ed George
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U/D 1, Mr Trump's pre rally thought provoker. Worth considering, and of course in no way an endorsement of any political figure or side. All of us are implicated in this blood guilt. KFkairosfocus
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The core MfL case is simple: "Abortion is the most significant human rights abuse of our time. Will you take a stand?" What is our answer, why? What do our answers imply? What, then, should we do?kairosfocus
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Today (Fri., Jan 24th 2020) is the annual March for Life -- we will, DV, monitor and update across the day.kairosfocus
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