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.
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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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Marching for that little Innocent life is worth it, Gods little children.
I think I’m a furry, I’m not sure what I want to be. Sorry it’s already been determined you’re a boy or girl, end of story.
Umm — we’re marching because 1) Abortions have gone UP since Roe was overturned. We’re marching because 2) mail-order abortions are taking place in the home. We’re marching because 3) Alaskan politicians will not regain control of the constitution from the corrupt judiciary. We’re marching because 4) the allegedly prolife Republican Party has done little in this state except to nibble uselessly at the edges. We’re marching because 5) the right to life is cited in Article 1, Section 1. We’re marching because 6) We don’t need a constitutional amendment, we need to enforce Art. 1, Sec. 1 that already exists.
Somebody needs to march for the already born children who desperately need medical care, food, schools, fostercare and especially all the thousands who are waiting for homes and to be adopted! encourage the president to move children to the top of his war budget!!!
The children that are already born are under the guardianship of people called “parents”. Those children are the responsibility of said parents and should not be burdens of the state or tax payers. Back in school they taught us that sexual intercourse leads to pregnancy and the best form of birth control is abstinence.
Choose wisely if you should have sex if you are not prepared for the following circumstances.
A moose in the wild will go through mating season and the mother needs not have taxpayer incentive to raise their young. You could learn a lot from nature, much more than from communist ideology.
Be better.
You shouldn’t have hit Post Comment so quickly.
Just curious, what do you suggest happens when those “parents” become unable to provide proper guardianship? Death, illness, poverty, and a host of other issues could, and do, take any parent off the board at any time. “I should’ve been abstinent 6 years ago because I should’ve predicted my wife would die and I’d get cancer” is a ridiculous argument.
Why is the march good? Unity, purpose and discipline for that purpose which is “no more abortions. and to end the ease of thinking that abortion is a solution to a temporary problem. our lawmakers have created a true scenario, planned and executed to end the lives of the most helpless in our lives. The lobby money that flows into the pockets of our elected is relentless and non-stop that pays for the votes to our senators like Lisa Murkowski to create the deaths of over 300, 000 unborn to abortions in our country and our state is a part of that sick purpose averaging about 1,500 abortions a year. Murkowski has ensured the codification of abortions in the CFR’s and the USC and the statutes of congress and supported it as a means of population control and votes for a next election.
So. marching is a good thing that is visible and getting stronger every year. If it ends the blood bath of the unborn innocence, the commercialization of their body parts and sets thinking of the lawmakers in a different direction, then I hope and pray it will succeed in that purpose. To end, I have a copy of a unity prayer I kept as I am a Christian: My Adorable Jesus, May our feet journey together, May our hands gather in unity, May our hearts beat in unison, May our souls be in harmony, May our thoughts be as one, May our ears listen to the silence together, May our glances profoundly penetrate each other, May our lips pray together to gain mercy from the Eternal Father.
Every march creates new thoughts and commitments and I hope this march will create that image in purpose.