Tuesday January 23, 2001
MARCH FOR LIFE A HUGE SUCCESS
WASHINGTON, Jan 23, 2001, (LSN.ca) - Tens of thousands of pro-lifers took part in the March of Life yesterday calling for the Roe v Wade 1973 decision which allowed abortion to be overturned. In the hundreds of events leading up to Monday's March for Life, demonstrations and pro-life speeches and sermons and interviews everywhere provided excellent media coverage. The massive crowd with a huge youth contingent was delighted with the message from President Bush and the announcement that he was re-establishing a law banning US funds from international groups which provide and lobby for abortion.
Various religious leaders including newly named cardinals in the US gave rousing pro-life sermons last Sunday, most of them adding a word of prayer and encouragement for the pro-life sentiments of President Bush. All the same, former abortionist and now pro-lifer Dr. Bernard Nathanson urged more clergy to speak up in favour of life. ( http://www.afa.net/prolife/jl011901.asp ) Two days before the anniversary, Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis marched with 1,500 pro-lifers after a Mass at the Cathedral to a Planned Parenthood abortuary. The bishop described Planned Parenthood clinics as a kind of "Calvary" for unborn children. "It is also a hill of Calvary - a place of banishment and execution," he said.
American Life League and Rock for Life encouraged the thousands of youth present to subscribe to "absolute Truth" and reject "failed pragmatism," saying that "the pro-life movement must advance the principle of personhood in defense of every preborn person from fertilization." On Monday morning, the groups joined a youth protest at the Food and Drug Administration headquarters to protest FDA approval of the RU-486 abortion regimen. Meanwhile, Norma McCorvey AKA Jane Roe, the woman at the centre of the 1973 decision, used the occasion to announce the creation of a new pro-life outreach called "No More Roe" to dissuade pregnant women from resorting to abortion.
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