Andy Schlafly (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
A New Jersey conservative activist, famous for founding an on-line encyclopedia, is one of several activists recruiting marchers to participate in the 2010 March for Life in Washington, DC.
Andrew P. Schlafly, founder and chief administrator of Conservapedia.com, has chartered two large buses for his trip to the March for Life, and hopes to have 94 participants, the largest single contingent from New Jersey.
The 2009 March for Life saw 300,000 participants altogether from across the country. This year, Schlafly and others hope to see a crowd of 500,000.
"At a time when Congress is on the verge of establishing death panels and health care rationing, this year's March for Life is the most important yet," said Schlafly. He was referring to the health-care reform bills that have passed the House and Senate, each of which calls for evaluation, by a federal board charged with cost-effectiveness analysis, of various kinds of insurance coverage in an attempt to produce a "one size fits all" insurance programs for all Americans, regardless of predisposition, or lack of it, for any particular medical conditions. He might also have been referring to the "compromise language" in the Senate bill agreed to by Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE), language that many observers say represents a weakening of present abortion-funding prohibitions as specified in the Hyde Amendment.
The March for Life takes place on or about January 22 every year, as it has since 1974, the first anniversary of the decision by the United States Supreme Court (Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 1973) that superseded all State laws against abortion. The founders of the March for Life movement were determined that that anniversary should never pass without protest. According to About.com, the March for Life typically draws 100,000 participants or more. In addition to the main event, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, DC holds a March for Life Youth Rally and Mass.
Norma McCorvey, the original plaintiff in the Roe case, has since had a change of heart, after a five-year-old protester handed her a Gospel tract. She has petitioned the Court for reconsideration of that original case, without success.
The Conservapedia contingent will leave the Chester, NJ Shop-Rite parking lot at 7:15 am on the day of the march, and return at 10:00 pm, with a stop for dinner on the way back. Persons interested in participating are invited to contact Schlafly at aschlafly@aol.com.
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