This past weekend, the 44th annual March for Life took place in Washington D.C. This march is the world’s largest annual pro-life demonstration. Thousands upon thousands gather to march for life and the those who are voiceless. It’s an incredible movement and one that everyone should get behind.

The March for Life isn’t just about abortion but it’s about all life in general. Life matters. Your life matters. That’s the different between this march and the Women’s March. We aren’t marching for ourselves but for others. We’re marching for life and we’re marching for the voiceless. This march isn’t even about women’s rights. It’s about human rights. It’s about the rights of those who can’t speak up for themselves.

This rally has grown exceptionally over the years, drawing thousands upon thousands even in the cold January weather, ready and waiting to let their voices be heard. I wasn’t in Washington during the rally but I was rooting for it, and in my own way, I marched for it. In fact, I march for life everyday. I march with this crowd that showed up that consisted of old people, young people, men, women, kids, black, white, Hispanic, etc. Every person from the city, the country, the northwest, the Midwest and the east coast was represented in this march. It was unifying. It’s as good as it gets because all that is required to be a part of this rally or movement is that you care about innocent human lives. Our concern, our movement and our passion for life is much more universal. It’s broader because it’s not about ourselves and fighting for free birth control or our bodies but it’s about coming together to recognize the God-given gift of life.

I march for life because every life is valuable.

I march for life because every life has rights

I march for life because murder is wrong.

I march for life because every life matters.

I march for life because I want to be a voice for the voiceless.

Many of these people joined in the march on Friday because some have experienced the pain of having an abortion, some for religious reasons, most in support of non-violent choices and some marched for the unwanted and the voiceless.

Can you imagine being unwanted? Can you imagine someone wanting to murder you because you were an inconvenience or an accident? If you really think about it, I don’t think anyone would want to imagine such a travesty. Life is so precious and if someone had chosen to abort you, you couldn’t say anything about the matter. You couldn’t defend yourself. Imagine that?

You see, we who are pro-life want to peacefully and persuasively speak up for the unborn until their full humanity is acknowledged. We march for all people; born and unborn We march for those who have voices and those who are voiceless.

We are told that abortion is choice but in fact, it’s not. It’s murder. It’s an injustice. We cannot justify choice by murdering an innocent human being. We cannot justify murder of any human being. We cannot justify killing someone who could cure cancer one day or become the next Taylor Swift or a doctor and so on. We cannot justify this injustice.

If you want to know how women feel after having an abortion, read on:

"Two weeks after the abortion, I went into labor. I staggered into the bathroom. And there, with my husband beside me, I delivered a part of my baby the doctor had missed. It was the head of my baby. . . I’ll wake up in the middle of the night, thinking I hear a baby crying. And I still have nightmares in which I am forced to watch my baby being ripped apart in front of me. I simply miss my baby. I constantly wake up wanting to nurse my child, wanting to hold my child. And that’s something the doctor never told me I would experience.” – Lorie Nerad (Former National President of Women Exploited by Abortion)

"Now that my son is 4 years old, I sometimes look at his sweet face and wonder what features my other child would have had. I still have dreams about holding him or her and it makes me so deeply sad to think that I have robbed my son of a sibling. Why not just try and conceive a sibling for him today you may ask? Well, I would love to but my husband and I have been struggling with infertility for two and half years. I never once dreamed that I wouldn’t be able to conceive when I wanted to! Every night my sweet boy prays to God for a sibling and every time I hear those precious prayers my heart aches over what I did. Because in retrospect an abortion isn’t an easy fix or a solution to a problem….it is the problem, and it leaves a lasting effect on generations to come.- Ashley Granger (Wife, Mother, Sonography Student).

“I flushed my baby in the toilet and it was horrifying. And it didn’t help me to graduate. It’s been nineteen years and to this day, I don’t have a degree. […] Seven years later, I got pregnant again. The father was twice my age and he was abusive. Abortion was the quick fix solution to protect myself and my baby from the abuser. So I went to a clinic and in great anxiety, I was put to sleep. When I woke up with blood on my legs, I burst into tears and I was inconsolable. I sank deeper and deeper into depression and suicidal thoughts.

Then, I met my husband and he brought Jesus into my life but I was still hurting. When I was pregnant with our first child, my abortions resurfaced and the guilt was overwhelming. I went to counseling and I started to heal. Later, I attended a Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat and finally, I was able to forgive myself and find peace.

Abortion promised to free me from two crisis situations and instead, it has nearly destroyed me. But there is hope for all those who are hurting and it is for them that I am Silent No More.” – Beatrice Fedor (Member of the Silent No More Campaign).

These are just a few stories from women who have been affected by abortion. You see, this isn’t a march about ourselves. It’s a march about life. We can’t be silent when it comes to murder. We have to advocate for human life. We march because every human being is fearfully and wonderfully made. Every human being is thought of before they were even created in the womb. EVERY HUMAN LIFE MATTERS.

This is why we march.

This is why I march.

“I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well” – Psalm 139:14 (ESV)