The land of the aborted

I went to a pro-life rally today, and I should npte that I saw fewer aborted fetuses than expected. It was not this bad. But as you can see in the photo, there were dead babies. Don't enlarge it if you have a weak stomach. Here's my story.

I started at a prayer service at the Capitol (separation of church and state?) and then moved to the National Mall, where the protesters gathered. The last time I was on the Mall, everyone was singing Barack Obama's praises. Literally. These folks, though, are super skeptical because they think he eats babies. No really, they're concerned that he'll undo Bush's partial-birth abortion ban and allow abortion in any trimester. Whether or not those are realistic concerns - and I don't know, so don't get all heated up about it - I was struck by the irony.

The other odd thing was that the pro-choicers weren't over the moon about Obama either. One woman said Bush's policies limited access to birth control and she doesn't think Obama will do anything to rectify that. 'Course she also said she doesn't respect Democrats in the legislature because they allow pro-lifers to march on public property. Um, k, I don't know about in New York, but in North Carolina, we call that the 1st Amendment. Plus she was holding a sign that said, "If you can't trust my choice, how can you trust me with a child?" Which kind of misses the point of the debate. Anyway, I like this photo because I took one of team abort (pro-choice gang), walked away for about 10 minutes, and when I came back, the right-to-lifers had moved in front of them to block them from the street. If you look carefully, you can see the "keep abortion legal" and "anti-choice is anti-american" signs.

I submit that pro-lifers are like Southern Baptists in that they never start or finish anything on time. Seriously. That dang rally lasted so long that I walked to the Supreme Court and back, then went and got lunch, then walked back to the Supreme Court before they finally started moving. Also, Capitol police don't like it if you climb on the planters in front of the SC. Oops.