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Anti-Abortion Activists Host 'Walk for Life' Rally in San Francisco
nbcbayarea.com ^ | Saturday, Jan 24, 2015 | Associated Press

Posted on 01/25/2015 12:44:57 PM PST by Morgana

Anti-abortion activists attending a march down Market Street in San Francisco on Saturday offered personal stories about how an abortion negatively affected their lives and expressed renewed hope that the procedure will be outlawed or at least further curtailed now that Republicans are back in control of Congress.

Thousands of people rallied across from San Francisco City Hall as part of the 11th annual Walk for Life West Coast, an off-shoot of the March for Life held in Washington every year since 1974 to mark the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States a year earlier.

The Vatican ambassador to the U.S., Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, told the multigenerational, multi-ethnic and heavily Catholic crowd that he was encouraged by the House vote on Thursday's anniversary of Roe v. Wade to permanently forbid federal funds for most abortions. A White House veto threat means the legislation has little chance of becoming law, but Vigano said it should because he thinks abortion is antithetical to values the nation holds dear.

"It could be, perhaps, the only one who does not have the freedom of speech is the unborn,'' he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcbayarea.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: abortion; marchforlife; prolife

1 posted on 01/25/2015 12:44:58 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Wishing the participants peace, never know how they could be treated there. They are admirable.


2 posted on 01/25/2015 2:19:49 PM PST by BeadCounter
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To: Morgana

I’m confused by this San Francisco headline. Does this lib paper mean Pro-Life supporters when it refers to people as so-called “anti-abortion activists?”

Oh, well . . . if the shoe fits, I would wear it.

Oldplayer


3 posted on 01/25/2015 2:21:51 PM PST by oldplayer
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To: oldplayer

Oh, I see, it is from NBC. Well, I previously saw a story there would be a pro-life march. But you are correct in your assessment.


4 posted on 01/25/2015 2:33:39 PM PST by BeadCounter
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To: Morgana

We are called Pro-life you leftist “reporters”.


5 posted on 01/25/2015 2:59:10 PM PST by vpintheak (Call them what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: BeadCounter; Morgana

The NBC link states “tens of thousands” of protesters ,, and it certainly seems so ( video at link ) . At least they’re covering it ... I would expect San Fran Sicko NBC to ignore the march.


6 posted on 01/25/2015 3:54:38 PM PST by Neidermeyer ("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
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