Marchers are gathering in Washington, DC, today to make the following demands of the US government:
- Appoint an antiabortion justice to the Supreme Court.
- Make the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for many abortions in the United States, into a permanent law rather than the one-year provision that has been extended each year from 1976 to the present.
- Pass a law banning abortion nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
- Stop all federal funding for Planned Parenthood unless the organization were to somehow stop performing abortions.
There will be another march next weekend, I assume, to protest the shocking fact that one in five children in the United States lives in poverty. These church leaders and devout Christians will unite to march in support of raising the minimum wage and improving social programs and creating universal pre-kindergarten programs and improving public schools, to protect the lives of children who have already been born.
They will insist that their representatives vote to maintain the Affordable Care Act, which makes sure that babies born prematurely don’t exhaust their lifetime health care coverage before ever seeing the world outside the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. They will work to combat gun violence. Surely they will.
Unless, of course, it was never about the children in the first place.