Annual anti-abortion rally held in Augusta despite snowstorm (Maine)

centralmaine.com ^ | January 16, 2016 | JASON PAFUNDIStaff Writer

[Morgana]

AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage said he has made it a point to attend the Maine Right to Life’s Hands Around the Capitol rally every year because of children.

“They are the future and we have to have more children and a better future for our society,” LePage said. “Right now, more people are dying than being born, so it’s time to have an opportunity to keep them alive. We should not have abortion.”

LePage, who received two standing ovations, was among a handful of speakers Saturday afternoon to a crowd gathered at St. Michael School gymnasium in Augusta to “publicly recognize and mourn” the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision of Jan. 22, 1973, which legalized abortions in the U.S.