Washington D.C., Jan 22, 2008 / 14:04 pm
“Today, 35 years after the infamous Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortion on demand throughout pregnancy, we mourn the estimated 50 million innocent girls and boys whose lives were cut off by abortion—a staggering loss of children’s lives, equal to six times the total number of people living in my home state of New Jersey,” said Representative Chris Smith as he addressed participants at the March for Life this morning.
"Someday future generations of Americans will look back on us and wonder how and why such a rich and seemingly enlightened society, so blessed and endowed with the capacity to protect and enhance vulnerable human life, could have instead so aggressively promoted death to children and the exploitation of women by abortion both here and overseas," Smith continued.
The New Jersey representative laid some of the blame at the feet of "some of our most prominent politicians and media icons" who "often spoke of human or civil rights, while precluding virtually all protection to the most persecuted minority in the world today, unborn children."
He also took note of Senator Barack Obama's criticism on Sunday of Americans being deficient in morals and in empathy for others. Senator Obama also called on Americans to be their brothers’ and sisters’ keepers.