A story the mainstream media didn’t report

They never do much with the annual March for Life each January on the Mall of Washington on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

This is definitely newsworthy. But the major news media ignored it.

A coalition of African-American pastors and other pro-lifers marched on the headquarters of both major American political parties in Washington on Thursday to demand that the party committees and party candidates for office refuse the $10 million that Planned Parenthood has said it will spend to influence the 2008 elections.

Decrying what they called its “philosophy of prenatal murder in the black community,” the marchers also demanded that Planned Parenthood be stripped of its $350 million in taxpayer funding it receives each year.

The marchers visited the headquarters of both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee. They were led by Day Gardner of the National Black Pro-Life Union and Dr. Alveda King, who is a niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I saw Dr. King on Fox News this morning talking about this issue as the natural extension of the civil rights movement. It was a compelling interview. The other media ignoring a story and an issue so fundamentally important to the human person as this during an election is….willfully ignorant.