FRONT ROYAL, VA, January 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The entire student body of Christendom College, including many of the faculty and staff, will lead hundreds of thousands in protesting abortion at the 36th annual March for Life, to be held in Washington, D.C., on January 22.
An honor normally reserved for individual states, Christendom College will carry the lead banner in this year’s March for Life for the third time in the March’s history. The College led the March in 1984 and 1998.
Christendom routinely cancels classes on the anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision that legalized abortion on demand in the United States, and its Student Activities Council charters buses to provide transportation for the hundreds of students eager to attend.
“Since the College is closed for the March For Life, Christendom’s commitment to life affords all our students the opportunity to give public witness to the importance of life in our nation’s capital,” Dean of Student Life Jesse Dorman said.
The theme of this years march is “REMEMBER – the Life Principles mean Equal Care with No Exception!” The March’s website states that “the Life Principles focus on the fact that each human life begins at fertilization by any means, and society must provide equal care for the right to life of each born and preborn human. The Life Principles are based on our secular homicide laws.”
Founded over 30 years ago Christendom College has attended the March for Life as a community every year. Its students are active in pro-life work year round, leading prayerful protests at a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Washington once a week, as well as taking part in sidewalk counseling and other pro-life activities.