Not Quite the Whole Picture.

I feel as though I need to dedicate this particular post to something that is very near and dear to my heart. On January 22, 1973 a decision was made in the Supreme court that made murder legal: Roe vs. Wade. Every year since, there has a been a march in our nations capitol to protest this decision. This gathering is called the "March for Life." Hundreds of thousands of people gather on the National Mall before marching onto Constitution Avenue toward Capitol Hill and the Supreme Court.

CNN, instead of covering the March on Monday, covered a different, smaller gathering and in their online article, that can be found here, say that "Hundreds of anti-abortion activists gathered in Washington's Lafayette Park on Sunday for a ... quick march along the White House's North Gate."

While this may be true, as CNN mentioned in the article, there were "other Roe v. Wade-related events were planned elsewhere in Washington Sunday and Monday, by both anti-abortion activists and abortion rights advocates alike." missed CNN, contrary to what you may want America to think, those "other events" closed over 10 separate streets and overwhelmed the subway stops in the area (according to the Washington Post). This group of Pro-Lifers (not the negative connotation of "anti-abortions") numbered in the hundreds of thousands and was by not means "quick."

People traveled from all over the east coast and throughout the United States. Additionally, in many other cities across the US, more people joined in the March in their capitols and major cities. Our media doesn't want the public at large to know just how large this movement has become. We are being fed a version of the truth that is skewed and inaccurate. Yes, there was a small group of people who met on Sunday, but by referring to "other events" such as the "March for Life" as an after thought, they give the impression that they are not as important, nor as big as the event already described. Make no mistake, we are not small, we are not "hundreds," we are a Pro-Life Generation and you will stop murdering us. There are empty seats in our schools because of Roe v. Wade. How many must there be before this nation realizes the atrocities it has committed?

In the Revolutionary War 25,000 souls were lost. In the War of 1812 4,505 men lost their lives. In the Mexican American War there were 4,152 casualties. In the Civil War the numbers lost were so great that they did not even have an exact number, but estimated the damage to be ~625,000 people. In the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars a combined 6,642 passed beyond death. In the first World War a staggering 116,516 never came home. When the second came, the country could hardly handle the 405,399 of their own who were lost. The Korean and Vietnam wars followed, 92,134 and 153,303 respectively. In the War on Terror, which has spanned from 1991 to now, has cost the United States 6,580 men and women.

In terms of a total number of deaths and deaths per day (lost both in combat, sickness, and injury as well as other causes of death) the American Civil War comes out on top at 625,000 lives lost. 599 men died a day on average with battles such as Gettysburg spiking these statistics with a sobering 7,000 dead in 3 days, total casualties (including dead, wounded and missing) numbered over 51,000. The total percent of the population that died was close to 2. For every hundred men, two did not return.

In total, the amount of men and women who have lost their lives to war in the United States Military from 1775-now is 1,343,812.

Now, consider the amount of abortions that have occurred from the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 until now, in 2012. The National Right to Life Committee released an analysis in 2010 that numbered the total amount of unborn children whose lives had been cut short at 52 million.

Let this sink in for a moment.... 52 million babies unborn.

If you take the 37 years between 2010 and 1973 and multiply it by 365, and divide the 52 million among them, the average death rate per day is 3,850 a day.

Consider, that the U.S. Census Bureau released that, in April of 2010, the population of the United States was 308,745,538. In terms of pure percentage, abortion has cost the United States 16.8% of its population.

Let us compare the lives lost to the Supreme Court with those lost to war. In the entire history of this country, 1.3 million lives have been lost. In the space of 37 years, over 52 million have been taken.

Even when you expand the number of losses in military endeavors to include the wounded and missing, the number swells to not even 2.5 million people.

Keep in mind, this is only the United States. This does not include that rest of the world. That number, I do not even wish to think of, my own country is shame enough. Though, as part of the world, we contribute to its shame.

According to a Abortion Statistics website, worldwide, there are an average of 46 million abortions a year. From 1973 to 2010 that's 1 billion 702 million babies who never breathed their first breath.

In the United States abortion in legal at any point during the 9 months of pregnancy for any reason.

In the United States of America, home of the brave enough to disregard life and the land of the freedom to do exactly as you please (unless it's pray and lead a moral life) murder is legal. Not simply murder, oh no, murder of the worst kind. The heart wrenching murder of those who have no voice, no defense, and are attacked in the one place that was thought to be the safest: their mother's own womb.

In our schools and on our playgrounds there are empty places where minds should have learned and mouths should have laughed. In our homes and our workplaces are women who are wracked with the emotional and psychological effects of having life wrenched from them. In our country we have a holocaust that has been occurring under our very noses for almost four decades.

We are a country blind to its own faults. In the name of "choice" we leave women without one, in the name of "health" we steal it, and in the name of "femininity" we destroy it.

It is our CHOICE to stand up against this horror against humanity. It is our CHOICE to stand up for what is right, words in a document do not change that definition. It is our CHOICE to love in the face of evil and it is our CHOICE to say that Abortion is WRONG.