Day Of Tears

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	Abortion; Pro-life; Pro-choice; History of abortion;
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The Day of Tears is advocated by anti-abortion activists as a day when flags across the United States should be lowered to half-staff and the nation should pause to mourn the 58 million unborn fetuses who have been legally aborted because of the 22 January 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.^[1] It is controversial because lowering flags to half-staff is usually reserved for honoring military dead (including commanders in chief),^[2] and the event demonizes people that have made their decision to abort (usually from difficult circumstances), equating them to murderers.

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[1] ttps://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HR268

[2] ttp://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/virginia-house-approves-day-of-tears-resolution-to-encourage-half/article_8fbfe938-86d9-5d33-9816-616c601c7e75.html

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