Among the tens of thousands assembled in Washington for the 46th annual March for Life was conservative pundit and headliner Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro’s speech started with highlighting the noteworthy American ideals of “life and liberty,” urging Americans to move forward by protecting such values for the unborn.
“America was founded on the promise of God-given rights. Chief among them was life and liberty,” Shapiro said. “While America has imperfectly fulfilled that promise, we always move forward for the perfection of that promise.”
“We built the country for our children,” Shapiro added. “We built our lives for our children. And then something happened. Our country decided to erase them.”
He addressed the science community who, according to Shapiro, perpetuates false narratives regarding the origins of life:
We dehumanized the most human, the most innocent among us. We lied to ourselves. And then we built walls around that lie. We lied about the science. We falsified anti-scientific arguments about the origin of life. We pretended that human beings were not actual human beings.
Shapiro highlighted what he called euphemisms used to mask the horrors of killing the unborn, such as “termination of pregnancy,” “choice,” and “abortion.”
Shapiro also referenced Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a darling of the left, and his past statements about pro-lifers not being in line with where we are as a society. Shapiro agreed with that sentiment, stating, “We do live in a time where the Democratic Party embraces abortion as a sacrament.”
Shapiro went on to emphasize how many in the Republican Party have failed to fulfill their promises to defund Planned Parenthood while given the power to do so.
“We live in a time where pro-life nations around the world are loosening their own restrictions on the killing of the unborn,” Shapiro said, defining the pro-life movement’s alleged misalignment with the rest of society as unequivocally good.
Lawmakers who spoke at the rally included Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J.; Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont.; and Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill.
