{"id":161480,"date":"2017-01-31T18:03:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T23:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=161480"},"modified":"2017-02-01T09:55:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:55:06","slug":"abortion-advocates-march-for-life-reaction-sets-new-standard-for-paranoia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-advocates-march-for-life-reaction-sets-new-standard-for-paranoia\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion advocate’s March for Life reaction sets new standard for paranoia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-abortion blogger Robin Marty<\/a> has in the past been a little<\/em> fairer than most of her colleagues, but you wouldn\u2019t know it from her latest piece<\/a> at Cosmopolitan, titled \u201cI’ve Been to the March for Life Twice. This Year It Scared Me.”<\/p>\n

To her credit, Marty\u2019s previous<\/a> March for Life coverage<\/a> was mostly fair, albeit marred by a couple digs, such as the backhanded \u201ccompliment\u201d that \u201c[p]erhaps anti-abortion leaders really do care a little about the wellbeing of children after they are born\u201d (perpetuating the stereotype that there was ever any reason to doubt we care) and the bizarre speculation that pro-lifers want \u201ca completely separate culture that they could feel comfortable in without being forced to interact with the rest of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alas, those are nothing compared to her assessment that this year\u2019s march was \u201cvery, very different than years past, and the difference is frankly terrifying.\u201d However, right out of the gate Marty lets a huge qualifier slip: she didn\u2019t actually attend this year, and just watched livestreams on the internet. She conducted no interviews that yielded anything scarier than her past interviews and witnessed no attendees who said or did anything scarier than those she observed at previous marches.<\/p>\n

In fact, she admits that according to the video, for \u201cthe most part, things hadn\u2019t changed significantly.\u201d So what exactly was so terrifying? Was, say, a convicted killer invited to speak this year? No, wait, that was at the pro-abortion women’s march<\/a>…<\/p>\n

But this year, the speaker\u2019s podium at the Planned Parenthood protest was draped in red, white, and blue cloth, and rather than a solemn closing prayer for the unborn, the event concluded with a rousing chorus of \u201cGod Bless America.\u201d It was love of God and government intertwined that I hadn\u2019t witnessed at all in the two years prior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny, I\u2019ve been to the March for Life a few times myself (2009, 2014, and 2015), and I certainly don\u2019t recall any arbitrary segregating of God and country (or excessive conflating of the two). And what does \u201cintertwining love of God and government\u201d even mean? Nothing. This isn\u2019t anything new; secularists have always had trouble reconciling<\/a> the fact that America is founded on both secular and<\/em> religious principles, or that when properly understood, neither endangers the other.<\/p>\n

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