I was asked the other day why we’re encouraging people to walk with us at the 2026 Alaska  March for Life taking place in Anchorage a week from tomorrow, Saturday, April 25. What’s the point of it? Good question.

Here are six that came to me.

We’re marching because a public event creates public discussion and awareness. As we make our way around the Delaney Park Strip downtown and gather for our rally, women and men will see messages of why they should choose life. Some of them, with God’s prodding, might just make a decision that will change the trajectory of an image bearer in a womb. We rarely know the exact moment or message that turns a heart and mind toward truth.

We’re marching because although lifting up the sanctity of life in the political realm is essential, it is not enough. This gathering is something organic in the culture. Something that reflects what we stand for and believe in.

We’re marching because the diversity and camaraderie of a large gathering buoy our spirits and lift our countenance. Despite the overturning of Roe v. Wade, states like Alaska are very unsafe places for pre-born children. That reality is countered and made less burdensome when we come together in fellowship with a common vision. We are strengthened to continue standing.

We’re marching because the intentional taking of an innocent human life is always wrong and abortion is the intentional taking of an innocent human life. Our march will be a celebration of life and of that which is true, good and beautiful. It will also be a public display of consensus on that which is wrong. Always has been. Always will be.

We’re marching because moral clarity is needed now more than ever. Although those of us participating largely agree that the Creator God of the universe has given us natural law, which is logical and imposes order on the universe – including the abomination of killing innocent life – many of the watching public are not aware of this.

C.S. Lewis said, “I believe we ought to work not only at spreading the Gospel (that certainly) but also at a certain preparation for the Gospel. It is necessary to recall many to the law of nature before we talk about God. For Christ promises forgiveness of sins: but what is that to those who, since they do not know the law of nature, do not know that they have sinned? Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease? Moral relativity is the enemy we have to overcome before we tackle Atheism.”

Finally, we’re marching as part of the best of American tradition. As we celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday this year, the right to assemble and stand up and speak up for what we believe in is protected by the 1st Amendment. We march to exercise our rights to free speech, assembly, and to petition the government on behalf of things we care deeply about. No other movement is as good at doing that as the pro-life movement.

Please join us next Saturday, April 25th. We’d be honored to march with you.

TAKING ACTION

— Click here to sign up for a free luxury shuttle bus ride to the march from locations in Wasilla, Eagle River and around Anchorage.

— Click here for more information about the march and rally on April 25.

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