March for Life
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Every year since January 22, 1974 (anniversary of Roe v. Wade (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade)) |
Washington, D.C. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.) |
www.marchforlife.org (http://marchforlife.org/) |
“When we found legislation making exceptions first for the life of the mother, rather than putting in there equal care for both the mother and the pre-born child, they (pro-life leaders and others) were actually saying that someone had the authority to kill an innocent child. Then you know what happened, once they made that one exception for the life of the mother, abortionists came along and put an exception for rape and incest and deformed children. And once those principles were violated, then unfortunately it was extremely difficult to make the abortionists understand that killing an innocent human being is not within the scope of either the moral or the secular law, and it is because of that,… those exceptions divided the various organizations.”
Pence fires up anti-abortion activists in Washington marchI love this
Tens of thousands turn out for event on the National Mall in Washington DC
(https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.2954327.1485560502!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/image.jpg)Vice-president Mike Pence praised “the election of pro-life majorities” in the US Congress
Fri, Jan 27, 2017, 23:37
US vice-president Mike Pence (https://www.irishtimes.com/topics/topics-7.1213540?article=true&tag_person=Mike+Pence) fired up tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists who gathered on Friday for the 44th March for Life, celebrating a political shift in their favour with the election of president Donald Trump.
“Life is winning again in America,” Mr Pence told the demonstrators on the National Mall, near where Mr Trump was sworn in a week ago before hundreds of thousands.
The March for Life took place in the same area where even more massive crowds flooded Washington a day after Mr Trump’s inauguration in favour of women’s rights, including abortion rights.
Mr Pence, a longtime hero of the anti-abortion movement, is the most senior government official to speak in person at the rally, organisers said. As governor of Indiana, he signed what were seen as some of the nation’s strictest abortion laws.
Mr Pence praised “the election of pro-life majorities in the Congress of the United States of America,” Mr Trump’s upcoming nomination of an anti-abortion supreme court justice, and the president’s reinstatement on Monday of a policy that cuts off US funding to healthcare providers that promote or provide abortions overseas.
“It’s the best day I’ve ever seen for the March of Life,” he said.
Trump senior aide Kellyanne Conway was one of many women to address the demonstrators before they started their march from the Mall to the US Supreme Court, about 1.5 miles