The 45th annual March for Life in Washington arrives on the heels of one more Pew survey about declining faith—this latest indicating that only 4-in-10 Millennials think of Christmas as a religious holiday. All of which raises a new question for those gathering on the Mall in what P.J. O'Rourke has rightly described as the only selfless demonstration that regularly assembles there: If fewer and fewer younger people are going to church, will the pro-life cause itself eventually wither and die?
Panglossian though it may seem, I believe the answer is “no.” Consider as opening witnesses for defense of that proposition two unlikely bedfellows: long-reigning bad-boy rap superstar, Marshall Mathers; and world-beating non-Christian apostle of nonviolence, Mahatma Gandhi.
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