March for Life at 51: Do we truly value people over politics?
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🗓️ 19 January 2024
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Today marks the 51st annual March for Life in Washington D.C. It’ll be followed later this weekend by the 40th annual National Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. These events offer us the chance to remember that, while abortion is a political issue in many ways, nothing is going to change until it becomes a personal one as well. So how can we help that shift happen today?
Author: Ryan Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Friday, January the 19th, 2024. I'm Chris Elkins |
| 0:07.7 | from the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison. Today marks the 51st |
| 0:15.8 | annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. However, when the event first started on January the 22nd, |
| 0:23.0 | 1974, it was meant to be a one-time protest against the evils of abortion. Its organizers turned it |
| 0:30.1 | into an annual event when, quote, it became apparent that congressional protection for the unborn |
| 0:35.6 | was not on the horizon. End quote. Their assessment is even more correct now than it was back then. |
| 0:41.3 | But, honestly, that should not come as a surprise. |
| 0:44.3 | After all, the government can rarely agree on anything, much less on an issue as divisive as abortion. |
| 0:51.3 | Perhaps that's why the president, who famously quipped that the nine most terrifying |
| 0:56.3 | words in the English language are, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help, turned his |
| 1:00.8 | attention back to the people in looking for a solution. When President Ronald Reagan issued an executive |
| 1:06.4 | order 40 years ago to announce the first National Sanctity of Life Day in 1984, he concluded |
| 1:14.2 | the proclamation by stating, I call upon the citizens of this blessed land together on that day |
| 1:20.3 | in homes and places of worship to give thanks for the gift of life and to reaffirm our commitment |
| 1:26.4 | to the dignity of every human being and the |
| 1:29.4 | sanctity of each human life. He understood that the best way to protect life is to value life, |
| 1:36.2 | and that is fundamentally a moral issue rather than a political one. And as doctors Mark |
| 1:42.3 | Terman and Jim Denison discussed in a recent episode of the |
| 1:46.2 | Denison Forum podcast titled Why We Must Choose Life, that tends not to be the way people view |
| 1:51.8 | the issue of abortion today. Find a link to the Denison Forum podcast in today's episode notes. |
| 1:58.1 | So how can we change that view of abortion? When actress Sarah Snook recently accepted |
| 2:03.8 | her Emmy for best lead actress in a drama series, she gave most of the credit to a surprising |
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