March for Life: Beneficial to the Cause?

In case you were wondering, I am pro-life, in all regards (The only time that I have a hard time with that stance is if the mother's life is in danger, I feel as if I don't have the right to tell someone to die in order to save their child). Anywho, my friend came up with an interesting discussion today on Facebook. Is the March for Life actually beneficial to the cause? It mean, it isn't going to change lawmakers minds and a lot of people just see it as a nice trip to DC or day off from school.

Some of that has merit, and I have heard that position argued before. I have known people who have gone for the trip to DC and the March was something that they had to do. My point though is this, it is in the dead middle of January, the coldest month of the year (generally) and all of these people are marching for a cause that they believe in. They come from miles and miles away and usually have either a day or half a day to spend in DC. My school took 7 bus loads from Kansas and drove 17hrs to DC to march in the frigid cold and spent half a day to explore and then drove 17 hours back. That sounds more like a hard journey than a fun field trip.

Also, I believe the March is hugely beneficial. It energizes the movement and breaths new passion into the stance. It also unites many people from different backgrounds and religions (or even no religion). Even seeing, photos of the half a million people who marched this year energizes me and makes me feel like I am a part of something big. If unity and energy were absent, then I believe that the movement would eventually crumble and die. A lot of people are scared to stand up to something when they do not have a crowd who agree with them. So by coming together, united in a cause, we have strength. Our biggest enemies to the cause are complacency and apathy, and without the March I believe we would be letting them in.

That image above is half a million folks that joined in the March for Life 2013 :)