Matthew's Personal Blog

I spent the day in Austin, TX, with a great crowd of pro-​​lifers to send a mes­sage to the politi­cians in our gov­ern­ment. We do not want abor­tion to be legal in this coun­try any longer.

In our dec­la­ra­tion of inde­pen­dence from the tyranny of the time, we pro­foundly stated that every human being is endowed with three unalien­able rights — rights that can­not be touched or changed in any way: “life, lib­erty, and the pur­suit of hap­pi­ness.”  Abor­tion most obvi­ously dis­re­gards the unborn child’s unalien­able right to life, and, as a result, denies that child his or her lib­erty and his or her chance to obtain hap­pi­ness.  Sci­en­tific evi­dence proves that an unborn child is 100% purely human from its start as a zygote, to its devel­op­ment into an embryo, or at its fetal stage before birth; the DNA of that child is already present and set in stone at the moment of con­cep­tion.  Since when did Amer­ica, the great­est coun­try in the world, allow its cit­i­zens to legally mur­der their own chil­dren?  Why can’t we show the same shock for aborted babies that we do when new­born babies are dis­cov­ered in trash cans?

While watch­ing the news after the event, they claimed that police offi­cers had to form a buffer between the pro-​​life crowd, the pro-​​choice crowd, and the capi­tol build­ing.  This state­ment is false.  Police offi­cers were present at the event, but they were on bicy­cles and only served to stop traf­fic for us as we marched through the streets.  We were not rowdy or vio­lent at all; we did not have any buffer between us and the capi­tol even as Gov­er­nor Rick Perry gave his speech about how he and the sen­a­tors are work­ing to pass pro-​​life bills.  I did see a small amount of pro-​​choice peo­ple, but they were scat­tered around through­out the pro-​​life crowd, not in a sep­a­rate loca­tion.  We coex­isted peace­fully and were even talk­ing with them!  We were not a mob as the news says we were.  Rather, we were a group of peace­ful pro­test­ers wish­ing to make our motives known by fol­low­ing the exam­ples of Dr. Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. and Mohan­das Gandhi.