March for Life: January 23

Every January, hundreds of thousands of people descend upon Washington, D.C. to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States.

This year, the date, January 22, falls on a Sunday when members of members of Congress are typically away from Washington, so March for Life has set the date for the annual pro-life march for the following day. According to their site, the organization wants “to make sure that our pro-life pilgrimage to our nation’s capitol has maximum impact on our elected leaders; and that our Marchers have an opportunity to visit with their Congressional delegations in order to press their pro-life message. For those reasons, we have scheduled the March for Life to be held on Monday, January 23, 2012.”

Thirty-eight years after the decision, Roe v. Wade remains one of the most controversial and politically charged issues of our time. Candidates run as either pro-choice or pro-life, and friends and neighbors may enter into heated discussions on the subject. Each opinion claims to be on the right side of the issue. Every year, on the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision, the opposition has mounted a march on Washington and in other cities to express their support for life and catch the attention of government in the hope of someday overturning that decision. The March in the nation’s capital gets most of the media attention, but other cities and small towns all over the country also have their marches. And with each passing year, more polls show that more and more Americans identify themselves as pro-life and they participate in marches closer to home.

One example is the town of Pecos, Texas. On Sunday, January 22, pro-life advocates will assemble at 4 p.m. at St. Catherine Catholic Church. In a procession, they will pray and carry their pro-life banners through the streets of Pecos to the other Catholic Church, Santa Rosa.

If the polls are any indication, these pro-life marches will increase. With each passing year, more polls show that more and more Americans identify themselves as pro-life. According to Gallup, more Americans are pro-life than pro-choice for the first time since 1995, when Gallup began tracking the issue. Gallup also notes that attitudes about abortion are shifting. In May 2010, more Americans identified "pro-life" is "the new normal," while also noting no increase in opposition to abortion.

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