By Dave Andrusko

Part Two are the inspiring remarks of pro-life champion. Rep. Chris Smith to today's March for Life. Please send your thoughts and comments on both parts to daveandrusko@gmail.com.

The headline for this Friday edition of TN&V is taken from the comments of an enthusiastic young woman at today's annual March for Life held in Washington, DC on the anniversary of the wretched Roe. Wade decision. Kind of cuts to the chase, doesn't it?

Each year I try to figure out a better way to gauge (admittedly VERY imprecisely) the size of the massive throng that descends on our nation's capital. Which means each year I wind up going further and further away from where the speeches are delivered and then working my way back and forth to get a sense of the crowd's magnitude.

NRLC staff members Brittany Able, Luis Zaffirini, and Jonathan Rogers (in the background) were very busy handing out the popular "Stop Abortion Now" stop signs, "Abortion is Not Healthcare" stickers, and flyers promoting the launch of eLobby for Life Week, a nationwide grassroots lobbying campaign. The campaign begins today and runs through Friday, January 29. To take part in elobby for Life Week, go to http://stoptheabortionagenda.com/action/e-lobby-for-life-week

I will stop at this: it was a colossal crowd, as huge as it was wired. People were everywhere. Up and down the main thoroughfare and any number of side streets. Can you hear us now, President Obama?

I am in a time bind, today so let me offer just three quick impressions. I will talk about this more Monday and as part of a picture of the national turnout in the next issue of National Right to Life News.

I overheard young people (and, as always, they constituted the bulk of the attendees) talking about how their parents had brought them to the March over and over again when they were children. Now as young adults, they were coming with their schools and universities or on their own. I cannot overestimate the importance of the behavior these parents had modeled for their children.

Second, the mood was festive. Nobody had forgotten why we were all there: the deaths of over 50 million unborn children and a President committed to doubling down the atrocity by weaving abortion into health care "reform."

But that somber reality did not take away from the sense of camaraderie and solidarity--the intuition that they were part of the great Movement for social justice of our time. That's pretty heady stuff whether you are 16 or 60.

Third, we all know at this point in time that although we are able to hedge in the abortion license, Planned Parenthood is still free to traffic in the blood of unborn children and the misery of their mother.

But we can not, must not ever forget that well over a million people are alive today who wouldn't be had the Hyde Amendment (which Obama wants to destroy) never been enacted.

Like you I've smiled and cheered every time rescue workers tore through the rubble and found another person alive in Haiti. And, of course, we couldn't help but feel a special joy that when the one rescued was a child. (Does it surprise you that, according to the Washington Times, "Days after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, the International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) sent out a fundraising appeal to help rebuild two clinics that were destroyed in Port-au-Prince and Jacmel"? Not in the least!)

That is the way we feel about every unborn child that we snatch away from the abortionist's clutches, through education and through the saintly work of women helping centers. Each life counts, each life matters, each life is of infinite importance.

Please take a moment to read Part Two, pro-life Cong. Chris Smith's wonderful remarks to the rally. They will send your spirit soaring.