Thursday, February 5, 2015
Fri, 20 Feb 2015
Dave Thompson
At the head of the recent March for Life, a host hundreds of thousands strong, marched Liberty University School of Law students in protest of legalized abortion and the tens of millions of innocent lives that have been lost in a holocaust that has continued for more than 40 years.
Twenty-three law students, with their families, marched in the leading group, which converged at the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Jan. 22. In all, Liberty University sent three buses full of participants for the march.
Others affiliated with Liberty University also too part in the 1.6-mile march.
Sean Maguire, a second-year law student and president of Liberty University School of Law Students for Life, said when he finished the march, the line stretched all the way back to where it began.
“There were people still starting when we were done,” Maguire said.
For the first time in Maguire's six-year history of marching at the event, the group encountered protestors – a few dozen of them – who blocked the road until they were arrested by police.
“It was the only (march) I’ve ever seen protestors actually get involved,” he said. “They are getting frantic. They’re concerned.”
As head of the pro-life student group at the law school, a group of about 70, Maguire wants something less of a group that sits around talking, and one that takes action.
Marching itself, Maguire admitted, isn’t actually going to change anything. But the symbolism behind the march is a valuable sign to others that so many are willing to take up the cause of the unborn.
”I think it shows that I’m discontent with the current status quo,” Maguire said of the march.
“I’m not going to stand by while this continues. I will do whatever I can.”
The student group supports both the Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center and the Liberty Godparent Home, and members have engaged in other pro-life activities like sidewalk counseling near abortion clinics.
Fundraisers have included selling cupcakes, medical wristbands, jeans day for law school students, and 5K race events.
Maguire said that he sees the Students for Life group as the heirs to an opposition that has been growing ever since the Roe v. Wade decision so drastically altered the landscape.
“There are people in the legal community who have pioneered the fight against legalized abortion, and they’ve been fighting for 30 years,” Maguire said.
"We are preparing to take up the work that they have started, and finish the job, and bring legal abortion to an end."
Liberty University News Service contributed to this report.