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Former Boston Herald columnist, Don Feder asserted that being Pro-Life is patriotic and Pro-American.

Former Boston Herald columnist, Don Feder, proclaimed to cheers and applause at Faneuil Hall that being pro-life is patriotic and pro-American.

He asked what could be more fitting than holding the 30th Annual Assembly for Life in that magnificent building where so much history is reflected, from the Sons of Liberty to the Abolitionists. He told the MCFL gathering that it follows in that tradition.

Don Feder brought the crowd to its feet with a hard hitting speech before the 30th Assembly for
Life.

America, said Feder, stands for liberty, human rights, decency and equality, all of which are best represented by the right to life movement. Americans have never shied away from fighting for a just cause, even if that cause was unpopular, he said.

"We are advancing that most precious of rights, that right upon which all others are based, the right to life," said Feder. "Like the Patriots of the past, we too have our opponents and our detractors. At the time of the Revolution, the Tories said it was better to submit to the arbitrary dictates of the king, than to go to war against the greatest empire on earth."

Pro-lifers reject the easy path and are going against the tide, because they cannot allow the evil to continue, he said.

Feder said that critics of the pro-life movement are wrong when they say abortion is progress and that it can never be revoked from established law. They are wrong that it is a right sanctioned by the Constitution, when in reality it negates rights and slaughters unborn children. They are wrong that this evil will not corrupt our very souls.
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After 9/11, said Feder; everything we heard was, "God Bless America."

"I ask you, seriously, how can we expect God to bless the nation that destroys life that he put in the womb?"

Feder pointed out how Thomas Jefferson said that he trembles for his country when he reflects that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever.

"Can we ask God to protect the nation that condones the barbarity of partial birth abortion, that toys with the monstrous notion of euthanasia, that has yet to ban in the Senate human cloning?" asked Feder.

Recalling the sacrifices of America's fighting men, Feder declared, "Great men did not die in the snow and the mud and the jungles so children could be butchered in abortion clinics!"

The "right to life" movement's cause is true to everything America stands for: faith, family and freedom, Feder concluded.