UPDATE: A big crowd for today’s anti-abortion protest, but as we can now shamelessly exploit for traffic rankings, not entirely unopposed:
Folks, as a political blog, we don’t often get to post photos like this. So we’re obviously not passing up the chance when we can do so in a way that is actually relevant to a Colorado political news story. This is also a nice segue into a discussion of our freakishly nice January weather.
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Here’s a photo of the healthy turnout at this afternoon’s March For Life Denver, an anti-abortion march organized by Colorado Right to Life today at the Colorado state capitol. Our source doesn’t have a crowd estimate, but this is believed to be the biggest rally at the state capitol in some time–to at least some extent taking opponents by surprise. From CRTL’s press release announcing tdoay’s event:
Colorado Right To Life notes that this Sunday’s March for Life in Denver is forty years after the infamous Roe v. Wade opinion, 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and nine days after the Alabama Supreme Court unanimously held that the word “child” in a state child abuse law applies equally to an unborn child…
Abortion is wrong because it’s a baby, and it’s always wrong to intentionally kill an innocent baby. Historically, the media, government officials, and many institutions despised those who fought for abolition of slavery, and in Germany, for equal treatment under law for Jews. Today, mainstream journalists, politicians, and our state institutions despise those who fight for the personhood and right to life of every innocent human being, no matter how small. “God and historians will judge today’s anti-human rights coalition of ‘pro-choicers’ as harshly as they judge the slave traders and racists of the past,” said Biff Gore, president of CRTL.
We are encouraged by Alabama’s life affirming ruling this month acknowledging what everyone should realize, that a baby in the womb is as precious and deserving of protection as a baby out of the womb. Meanwhile, “More than 50 million children have been dismembered in the forty years since the crime against humanity known as the Roe opinion,” said CRTL spokesman Gregg Jackson, “whereas those who advocate the continued dismemberment of unborn children do so at the peril of their eternal soul.” And it’s been 150 years this month since the Emancipation Proclamation, which event Colorado’s biggest newspaper then used, ironically, to mock and condemn those advocating for abolition of slavery (kgov.com/emancipation). Colorado’s media have not changed.
CRTL’s release also points to church bulletin inserts made available for this rally. That alone goes a long way toward explaining the big crowd in attendance today. We don’t have a complete list of elected officials who attended the event, but we’re awaiting what we’ve been promised will be very interesting video from GOP state Rep. Janak Joshi’s speech–Joshi being the prime sponsor of this year’s “fetal homicide” legislation. Stay tuned…
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Anyone have a count?
I wasn’t able to be there, but I will make a call and ask for you. It looks like a great turnout for life.
A great turnout for what?
For permanent minority status for the GOP. Haven’t you been paying attention? Rather than changing, they have decided to complete their own destruction.
Unofficially estimated at 1,500 by my friend who was there. NOT a spokesperson and she did not try to actually count. But she says we filled the area around the west steps.
Decent crowd. Smaller than the Occupy protests, but probably the largest thing since then.
Certainly larger than the 2-300 that usually come out for anti-abortion rallies.
Interesting. Largish crowd yesterday for no gun safety, today for the anti-abortion crowd. Is the right wing stepping up its public activity? If so, are we looking at a repeat of the anti-healthcare townhalls?
Probably because of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. 40 years is a big deal.
Abortion is not a candidate for office. Are you implying there is something wrong with churches advertising for this rally? Don’t liberal churches advertise liberal rallies?
There’s not a thing sinister about this. Yes, Dave, it could be that conservatives are stepping up!
Actually, I’m hard put to think of a “liberal church” breaking compliance with the tax code the way the christ-ees pimping anti choice on a very regular basis do..
Help me out here.
You make a good point. I have attended more than one “conservative” church with family members in the past four years. They all are more engaged in damning the black man in the White House (and all those librul degenerates who support him) than they are spreading the message of “the Prince of Peace” and seeking the salvation of their sorry, hateful souls.
They call it “jihad” in other places.
“Let me just say this right now: If you vote for John Kerry this year, you need to repent or resign.”
-A pastor, 2004
Every time I come across the photo at the top of this story, I keep asking myself…where is MADCO when we need him?
He probably printed it and is busy for a little while.