Thousands Attend March For Life Hoping To Make Abortion ‘Unthinkable’
'We come to give voice to the voiceless. We march out of love for life. Protecting their right to life is why we march.'
University of Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh put his money where his mouth is in the debate over abortion. Harbaugh recently delivered an impassioned defense of the unborn, and offered to adopt any child that was unwanted by his players and staff members.
Harbaugh unapologetically railed against abortion during an interview with ESPN this week, while also advocating for adoption.
"I've told [them] the same thing I tell my kids, boys, the girls, same thing I tell our players, our staff members," Harbaugh told ESPN's Gene Wojciechowski. "I encourage them if they have a pregnancy that wasn't planned, to go through with it, go through with it. Let that unborn child be born, and if at that time, you don't feel like you can care for it, you don't have the means or the wherewithal, then Sarah and I will take that baby."
At a pro-life fundraising event in Michigan on July 17, Harbaugh and his wife Sarah said they would fight for the unborn.
“I believe in having the courage to let the unborn be born,” Harbaugh said, according to the Detroit Catholic. “I love life. I believe in having a loving care and respect for life and death. My faith and my science are what drive these beliefs in me."
During the event, Harbaugh read a quote from Jeremiah 1:5: "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart. I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Harbaugh admitted that the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court had caused fierce tensions between Americans.
“Passions can make the process messy, but when combined with respect, it ultimately produces the best outcomes,” said Harbaugh – who is a devout Catholic. “This process has been passionate and messy, but I have faith in the American people to ultimately develop the right policies and laws for all lives involved. I recognize one’s personal thinking regarding morality of a particular action may differ from their thinking on whether government should make that action illegal. There are many things one may hold to be immoral, but the government appropriately allows because of some greater good or personal or constitutional right."
Harbaugh concluded, "Yes, there are conflicts between the legitimate rights of the mother and the rights of the unborn child. One resolution might involve incredible hardship for the mother, family and society. Another results in the death of an unborn person."
ESPN asked about his pro-life comments he made earlier this month.
"Faith, family, football ... those are my priorities. I just think that ... the abortion issue is one that's so big that it needs to be talked about," Harbaugh declared. "It needs serious conversation. What do you think? What do I think? What do others think?"
"It's a life-or-death type of issue. And I believe in, and I respect, people's views," the football coach explained. "But let's hear them. Let's discuss them because there's passion on both sides of this issue. So when you combine that with respect, that's when the best results come. ... [I'm] just contributing to that conversation and that communication, which I think is really important, in my opinion."
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I’ve been reluctant to give Jim Harbaugh credit for his public pro-life stance. Last week, the Michigan football coach spoke at a Right to Life event in Plymouth, Michigan.
Given the controversy surrounding the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, it was surprising to learn that a high-profile coach would take a position that opposed the leftist establishment. Harbaugh has previously been in lockstep with the left.
“I believe in having the courage to let the unborn be born. I love life,” Harbaugh said, according to the news service for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. “I believe in having a loving care and respect for life and death. My faith and my science are what drive these beliefs in me.”
Over the weekend, Harbaugh doubled down, granting ESPN reporter Gene Wojciechowski an interview and elaborating on his pro-life stance.
“I’ve told (them) the same thing I tell my kids, boys, the girls, same thing our players, our staff members. I encourage them if they have a pregnancy that wasn’t planned, to go through with it, go through with it. Let that unborn child be born, and if at that time, you don’t feel like you can care for it, you don’t have the means or the wherewithal, then Sarah and I will take that baby.”
Why am I bothered by Harbaugh’s stance? Why am I reluctant to give it a full-throated endorsement?
Harbaugh is a practicing Catholic. So are Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. Biden and Pelosi are pro-abortion. So what’s the difference in how Catholicism informs Harbaugh’s view on abortion, as opposed to the president and the speaker of the House?
The difference can be explained by occupation. As Democrats, Biden and Pelosi would pay a steep price for adhering to the position of the Catholic Church. As a football coach, there’s no down side to Harbaugh being pro-life. He can sell his pro-life message in every living room across America.
In general, white football parents are not leftists. They’re political conservatives and tend to be religious. Black football recruits tend to live in single-parent homes headed by single mothers who eschewed the option of aborting their children.
On the recruiting trail, the message that “all lives matter” works quite well. Harbaugh can look black mothers in the face and tell them he’s pro-life because he’s played with and coached hundreds of black boys and men who some people thought should be aborted.
This sounds like I’m being hypercritical of Jim Harbaugh, who is taking a stance I believe in. I’m glad he took the stance. I just don’t think he demonstrated any real courage in taking it.
What’s the down side? ESPN anchor Elle Duncan disagrees with him? Michigan’s school president, Mary Sue Coleman, disagrees with him? What is she going to do, fire Harbaugh? He won 12 games and the Big Ten title last year. He beat Ohio State. On the abortion issue, Harbaugh is bulletproof.
Harbaugh has threaded the Black Lives Matter needle. He named Colin Kaepernick an honorary team captain for the spring game. Harbaugh championed George Floyd and attended anti-police protests.
Every position Harbaugh takes is filtered through the lens of football, not Catholicism. He’s pro-Kaepernick because that’s a message that works with recruits. He’s pro-George Floyd because that’s a message that works with recruits. He’s pro-life because that’s a message that works with the mothers of recruits.
His way of being pro-life also comforts potential recruits. He’s telling his players that if they knock up a coed, Harbaugh and his wife will raise the baby. He’s not telling his players to avoid irresponsible sex, to find a woman worthy of marriage and procreate with her. He’s providing his players a safety net for irresponsible behavior.
Harbaugh is recruiting.
This is the problem with secular culture. Everyone is a slave to their careers. We toss aside our religious beliefs, values, and convictions to serve the best interests of our professions.
We have no higher calling than our career and salary. Royce White, a regular contributor on my show "Fearless," says we have “no sacred honor.” We’ll do anything for money. We joke about it.
I’m a huge fan of Charles Barkley. I like and respect Charles. I think he’s a force for good. However, last week, when talking about the possibility of taking a job with the Saudi-backed LIV golf league as a broadcaster, Charles joked that he would kill a close relative for the right amount of money.
The joke was funny because it’s laced with kernels of truth. We don’t care where the money comes from or what stipulations are attached to the money. We just want the money.
“I told (Greg Norman), ‘Listen, they are making up words, like blood money and sports-washing.’ I said, ‘We have all taken blood money and we all have sports-washed something, so I don’t like those words, to be honest with you.’ If you are in pro sports, you are taking some type of money from a not-great cause.”
American culture is in decline because of the financial influence of foreign countries. China tells Hollywood what movies to make and what message is allowed in those movies. The NBA and its players promote anti-American sentiment because China encourages it. Now Saudi Arabia is buying up American golfers and broadcasters to compete against the PGA Tour.
That’s my long-winded explanation why I’m not overly thrilled with Jim Harbaugh’s pro-life stance. If being pro-life would jeopardize a five-star recruit for Michigan, I suspect Harbaugh would convert his locker room into a Planned Parenthood facility.
University of Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh invoked the wrath of pro-abortion advocates after speaking at a pro-life event where he defended unborn lives.
Harbaugh is a devout Catholic.
Speaking at a Plymouth Right to Life dinner on Sunday, Harbaugh delivered a "pro-life testimony" in which he forcefully defended unborn humans.
"I believe in having the courage to let the unborn be born,” Harbaugh said, the Detroit Catholic reported.
"I love life. I believe in having a loving care and respect for life and death. My faith and my science are what drives these beliefs in me," Harbaugh added before quoting Jeremiah 1:5 and saying, "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart. I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
The former NFL coach of the year later said that he does not believe the government has a compelling interest to permit abortion.
There are many things one may hold to be immoral, but the government appropriately allows because of some greater good or personal or constitutional right.
Ultimately, I don’t believe that is the case with abortion. Yes, there are conflicts between the legitimate rights of the mother and the rights of the unborn child. One resolution might involve incredible hardship for the mother, family and society. Another results in the death of an unborn person.
Harbaugh told the dinner crowd that he has been pro-life since a young age, and admitted that his view shapes his relationship with his family, friends, and even the players he coaches.
"In God’s plan, each unborn human truly has a future filled with potential, talent, dreams and love," Harbaugh said. "I have living proof in my family, my children, and the many thousands that I’ve coached that the unborn are amazing gifts from God to make this world a better place. To me, the right choice is to have the courage to let the unborn be born."
Even though Harbaugh has never hid his pro-life views, his remarks evoked a sharp reaction from pro-abortion advocates, who ferociously condemned him.
While pro-abortion activists may want Harbaugh to lose his job, he is staying put for years to come as Michigan's head football coach.
In February, Harbaugh signed a 5-year contract extension worth $36.7 million. And considering he just lead Michigan to its first Big 10 conference title in nearly two decades, Harbaugh isn't going anywhere.
In pursuit of personal glory and wealth, American men have taken the role of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. We’re assisting in our own death, undermining our role as leaders, shirking our responsibility to shepherd God’s garden.
We’ve embraced the diversity, inclusion, and equity religion favored by women, the LGBTQ+ community, and race idolaters. This carefully constructed coalition of Marxists constitutes the foot soldiers of global elites. They evangelize and communicate through Silicon Valley’s social media apps.
The fundamental tenet and organizing principle of D.I.E. is that Christian men are the bane of society and the obstacle stopping women, the gender-confused, and people of color from realizing their American dream. The goal of D.I.E. is to kill Christian men and dislodge masculine, traditional men from American power.
We, men, are collaborating with our enemies.
We pat ourselves on the back and bask in glory every time we weaken our grip on leadership.
Tuesday, Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh celebrated his “history-making” decision to add a female graduate assistant to his coaching staff. With the selection of Mimi Bolden-Morris, Michigan became the first school in Big Ten history to name a woman to its coaching staff.
Bolden-Morris just finished her college basketball career. She was the starting point guard on the Georgetown basketball team this past season. Starting in June, she will work with Michigan’s quarterbacks.
“I have always believed in providing opportunities for individuals who are passionate about football and Mimi is someone who has shown that drive to become a football coach,” Harbaugh said in a written statement. “Mimi is a very bright, intelligent and competitive young woman who will be a great addition to our program and offensive coaching staff. We look forward to having Mimi transition into this role working with our quarterbacks. We can’t wait to see the new perspective she brings to our team.”
Harbaugh is following the trend established by the NFL. Last season, the NFL employed a dozen female coaches.
Diversity, inclusion, and equity are now the highest priorities in sports. We used to use sports as a meritocratic platform to develop leaders. The meritocracy aspect has been eliminated so that sports can serve America’s new religion – D.I.E.
Do we think Bolden-Morris’ drive to coach football supersedes the thousands of boys and men who play the game? I’m suspicious. I think her and Harbaugh’s desire to build their individual brands by any means necessary supersedes most people’s. Corporate media is obsessed with forced diversity. Harbaugh and Bolden-Morris are seizing an opportunity to capitalize on the obsession.
Hiring a female football coach is the new ice bucket challenge. Ohio State will soon counter by naming a female soccer player a special-teams assistant coach. Michigan State will scout for grad assistants at softball practice. If Rutgers is smart and honest, it will nab its female assistant coach from Tony Soprano’s Bada Bing club.
But Harbaugh was first. He made history.
“It speaks volumes to the efforts that Coach Harbaugh has made to create an environment of inclusion,” Bolden-Morris said in a statement. “These opportunities have been an anomaly for a black woman until recently.”
There it is. The race card. Played to ward off criticism of Harbaugh’s publicity stunt. Played so the public is blinded to the real agenda. A college football coach’s job is to mold men, not create an inclusive environment that meets the diversity standards of the D.I.E. religion.
There was a time in America in which molding men into leaders was a high priority. That era strengthened America, made us the envy of the world. Now China prioritizes building strong men while we seek to strengthen men who want to be women and women who want to be men.
Adidas has released a string of commercials celebrating transgender volleyball player Tifanny Abreu. Abreu plays on the Brazilian women’s national team. He’s being marketed as a hero to young people. We’ve normalized the rejection of manhood. It started with Caitlyn (Bruce) Jenner receiving an ESPN award as the most courageous athlete in 2015, nearly 40 years after he won a gold medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Jenner courageously rejected his manhood and transitioned to womanhood.
For the gods of diversity, inclusion, and equity, there’s no more courageous sacrifice than renouncing manhood. The only thing that remotely compares is turning over leadership responsibility to women, particularly the role of developing boys into men.
Jim Harbaugh might win the ESPY Award for courage this year.
Or maybe it will be Apple CEO Tim Cook. This week, Apple released a new series of emojis that included pregnant men. Men can’t get pregnant. Caitlyn Jenner and Tifanny Abreu can have a $100 million in surgery and they’ll still never carry a baby.
Despite their best efforts, the gods of D.I.E. cannot overrule God’s design.
Tim Cook controls the app store, not biology. Cook is a don in the BLMLGBTQ+ Alphabet Mafia. In 2014, he publicly stated that being gay is one of the greatest gifts God gave him.
I don’t have an interest in belittling Cook. But his assertion is the equivalent of me saying gluttony and a love of promiscuous sex are two of the greatest gifts God gave me.
We live in a time when we pretend our sins are gifts from God rather than sins we inherited from Adam and Eve. I don’t blame Tim Cook for being confused.
The confusion emanates directly from the mouths of people who say they are followers of Christ. Christianity has been overtaken by women and weak men, race idolaters who stand in the pulpit and pretend their bigotry has been sanctioned by God.
Jim Harbaugh, Tim Cook, and Adidas are preaching from the exact same diversity, inclusion, and equity bible as the overwhelming majority of American ministers and Christians, the real doctors of death.