March for Life coverage starts at 10am on EWTN

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to pack the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to declare their commitment to the unborn at the 38th annual March for Life.

This year's march will be held Monday, Jan. 24. Nellie Gray, the March for Life's 85-year-old founder and organizer, is expecting 400,000 demonstrators to attend the event.

The march has occurred every January since 1974. It originated in October of 1973, among a group of citizens who were convinced that the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade – handed down on Jan. 22 of that year – was a grievous violation of both constitutional and moral principles.

That decision by the high court found that an implicit legal “right to privacy” prevented the states from outlawing abortion, although they had commonly done so throughout U.S. history. There have been, by many estimates, approximately 50 million abortions in the United States since the Roe decision.

Twenty thousand people marked the first anniversary of the verdict in 1974 with a public demonstration at the nation's Capitol. They began a tradition that organizers and participants – whose numbers over the years have reportedly increased by at least a factor of 10 – plan to continue as long as abortion remains legal.

Grief and outrage over the continuing death toll brought an estimated 400,000 demonstrators to the nation's capitol for last year's March for Life, and Gray expects comparable numbers this year.

EWTN will be providing live television coverage of the march, beginning at 11 a.m. EST on Monday, Jan. 24.

Read more: http://ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/new.php?id=2483#ixzz1By4u1rgq

Funny that the only news outlet we can find out about a half million people marching on the mall is EWTN.

By the way, I'll be following this on Twitter today.   I'll pick up on blogging again tomorrow.