Remember life...

Versa est in luctum cithara mea, et organum in vocem flentium

Today, the anniversary of the Roe V. Wade decision, let us pause to remember life. We pray for the souls of those killed through abortion, and we give God thanks for the incredible gift of life.

Tonight there's going to be an interfaith pro-life vigil on the campus of the local university, UC Santa Barbara, that Christina organized. That didn't stop some other groups from expressing their own opinions:

Members of UCSB Voices for Planned Parenthood (VOX), a club affiliated with the national abortion rights organization Planned Parenthood, met at Java Jones coffee shop in Isla Vista at 7:30 p.m. Twenty club members and other participants lit candles and walked along Pardall Road on their way to the Women's Center, where they held a moment of silence to remember women who lost their lives to illegal abortions.

Lisa Castagnola, a fourth-year women's studies major and VOX co-founder, said the annual Roe v. Wade commemoration is traditionally the group's largest event.

Just over 20 students, and that's the club's largest event? Of course, they also came with their false statistics:

One sign read that illegal abortions caused 50 percent of maternal deaths between 1900 and 1950. Another said that after 1980 that percentage was nearly zero as a result of the safer access to legal abortions that Roe v. Wade afforded women.

We know, of course, that the number of reported deaths due to illegal abortions prior to 1950 was a complete fabrication, which Bernard Nathanson admitted to. We also know that the number of maternal deaths due to legal abortion is not nearly zero. And, of course, the number of babies' deaths due to legal abortion is in the millions.