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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today is Martin Luther King Day, and all across the country people are marching and holding rallies to commemorate a great American.

It is only fitting that it should fall one day after Sanctity of Life Sunday and one day before the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade becoming the law of the land. Roe is the landmark Supreme Court decision that determined that the unborn are less than a full person in the eyes of the law.

Yesterday pro-lifers across the country descended on state capitals across the country. Tomorrow, pro-lifers will descend on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

The similarities between the Civil Rights movement and the Right to Life movement are striking. Like with Civil Rights, the movement began at the grassroots level in churches across the United States. At its head, are well known and well respected religious and political figures. And like with Civil Rights, it is an issue that most Americans feel apathetic or don't want to talk about; while a minority voice is silenced.

Millions of lives have already been lost. Unforunately, MLK was assasinated in 1968 before abortion became legal. One can only speculate on how he would have felt about what the abortion activist described as a procedure that would "purify" the human race of its "unfit."

All we have are the words of his kin and his own words:

I have a dream this eveningm that one day we will recognize the words of Jefferson that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."