Hey everyone, my name is Liz. I am 19, and I am writing this post because I would like to share an experrence I had, and because I just need to talk this out or tell someone. I can’t tell my parents, and most of my friends would think I am crazy. This post concerns an event that I attended earlier this week. I could probably write a book about it, but this will be just a short summary. And while the experrence had a profound effect on me, I mainly want to use it to illustrate something more important about the society we are growing up in, something I just realized this week.
Some friends, not real good friends, but different than the crowde I usually hang out with, invited me to go on a bus trip to washington dc with them over the weekend, to a youth rally. Wow, this sounded interesting. I had never benn to dc befor. I ask what kind of rally, they said a prolife one. A what? We have had this discussion befor, prolife or prochoice, and they know I lean toward the prochoice side. They kept insisting that I would have a good time and really wanted me to come with them. They assured me that there would be some prochoice people there too. Well, I didn’t have much to do that weekend, and Monday is my usual day off, and the idea of spending it by myself sounded rather dull so I said ok and looked forward to a fun trip, or so I thought. Actually, I was clueless as to what I was getting myself into.
On the bus trip down I learned that we would be going to two rallies on Monday, a small one in the morning and a larger one at noon. With my usual live it up - party mentality, I never noticed that my friends didn’t give me many details about these rallies. As this was an overnight bus trip I was slept most of the way and gave little thought about the next morning.
On Monday morning we arrived at the first rally at a place called the verizion center in dc. this place was huge and it was full of young people, about 17,000 young people, I found out later. This blew my mind, especially as this was going to be a church service, a catholic mass service they said. on one hand I felt like an idiot for letting myself get talked into this, but on the other hand I was amazed at the joy and enthusiaum if all these young people. I couldn’t believe that all these young people were prolife, and were so joyful and happy. This was in stark contrast to most of my friends and myself who so often are rather sad and unhappy. They talked about abortion, and I learned that there is really a lot of help available for a girl facing an unplanned pregnancy.
I said to one of my friends, I thought this was supposed to be the small rally. She said it was. I asked her where the big one would be, and how many would be there? She said it would be at the washington mall and there would be close to half a million people there. That statement didn’t even register in my mind.
After the verivion rally was over, we all marched toward the mall, and as we got there, all I could see was a huge sea of people, and most of them were young people from all over the country. I later found out that the estimated croud size about 450,000 people. I talked to as many other girls as I could, and it was hard for me to convince myself that being prochoice was right. The joy and enthusiaum of the croud was overwhelming. It was an inspiring, but also a mentally exhausting day for me, as we finally got back to our bus. I slept almost the entire trip home.
In thinking back about the above events, I can truly say that this was a life changing event for me, and I can never again support the prochoice side. The friends who took me to the march, said that they felt that if I went, I would have a change of heart, and they were right.
I feel like I have grown up in a small bubble, a bubble of sex, drinking, wild parties – you know how our lifestyle is, and now that bubble has burst – and I can see that there is a totally different world out there. However I will not go into all the details of my conversion to the prolife cause, because most people in this forum most likely will not agree with me. There is no way you can explain this to someone. You have to be there to experience it.
There is one other point I want to make and it doesn’t matter which side of the abortion issue you are on for this. If a 1000 people got together someplace to have a pro-abortion, or gay marriage rally, the media would be all over that, as they always are. Now think of this for a minute. Did you see any TV or news coverage of this march for life? No, because, as I found out, there was none, and there never has been. There was a complete news blackout about this event. This was the 39th annual march for life, with hundreds of thousands of people, and the major mainstream media ignored it, because they do not want people, especially young people to know about it. I found this quote on the internet that someone wrote.
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If 500,000 youth turned out for a pro obama rally or pro abortion rally, or a occupy wall street rally, the main stream media would have plasterd the coverage on every major newspaper and tv station but, I didn't see one major story that covered this rally in my dailynews paper. not even One picture. Think there is no such thing as a "liberal Media"?
Now ask yourself these two questions. How much of our lifestyles are based on what we see in the media – tv, movies newspapers, etc ? The second question, do you like being lied to? This is what the main stream news has been doing to us for years. Why will they not cover the march for life? They feed us what they want, and hide from us the truth about many things. They want to push their own agenda, maybe that doesn’t bother you, but it sure does me.
The other young people at the march have something I don’t have in my life – joy and piece of heart. I want to find the joy and happiness they have, If abortion is still legal next year, I will be at the march for life.
Check out the following youtube links if you want to see some of what I saw.
http://liveaction.org/blog/video-mar...washington-dc/
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