{"id":2355,"date":"2015-01-24T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:21:36","slug":"farandas-at-march-for-life-two-days-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2355","title":{"rendered":"At March for Life, two days ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/span><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicleague.org\/media-blackout-march-life\/\" target=\"_self\">Media blackout of March for Life<\/a> &#8211; <em>evidently Donohue missed the NPR coverage mentioned in the comment below. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More people then ever, even less coverage (which is always skimpy) then ever. NY Times had a picture relating to some Congressional measures to restrict federal funding of abortion and that was it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Washington Post had the following article &amp; in the accompanying picture, I have a very similar picrture of the same little girl, same sign, on her father&#8217;s shoulders. That picture, and three others, below the Washington Post link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/health_care\/gop-pushes-abortion-bill-through-house-on-march-for-life-day\/2015\/01\/22\/e05cf34c-a29a-11e4-91fc-7dff95a14458_story.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">\u201cThis march is part of a longer one, and our destination is clear: to secure and protect the rights of every unborn child. When there is disagreement, we should pause and listen closely. When there is movement, we should rejoice, and the House\u2019s vote to ban taxpayer funding of abortion is cause for doing so,\u201d he said.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s my picture of the little girl &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"889\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d0c74a05970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11776\" title=\"P1120313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d0c74a05970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d0c74a05970c-500wi-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the crowd &#8211; tiny sample &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c73dd0a9970b-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11775\" title=\"P1000251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c73dd0a9970b-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c73dd0a9970b-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feminists for Life sign &#8211; FFL is a great group!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb07e1cd3d970d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11774\" title=\"P1120328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb07e1cd3d970d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb07e1cd3d970d-500wi-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Brigid &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c73dd0e7970b-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11773\" title=\"P1120278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c73dd0e7970b-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c73dd0e7970b-500wi-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Media blackout of March for Life &#8211; evidently Donohue missed the NPR coverage mentioned in the comment below. More people then ever, even less coverage (which is always skimpy) then ever. NY Times had a picture relating to some Congressional measures to restrict federal funding of abortion and that was it. The Washington Post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11777,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/11777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}