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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Nellie Gray, who started the annual March for Life to protest the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide, has died at age 86. She was found dead in her home Aug. 13 in Washington's Capitol Hill neighborhood by a March for Life staffer, Gene Ruane, who said the medical examiner will determine the cause and date of her death. The March for Life has grown into one of the signature events of the pro-life movement. After the first march in 1974, Gray, a Texas native, established the March for Life Education & Defense Fund to sustain...

Both sides of the heated abortion debate cross paths in downtown Shreveport. "All life is sacred, young, old all of them." They came out by the numbers, thousands of pro-life supporters crossing the Texas street bridge and entering Shreveport in unity. "I believe that even in the womb, that is a person. They meet all the qualifications to be a human being. The things that people value as humans," said pro-life supporter, Raeanne Chachula. "Defend the Defenseless," the theme for Louisiana's 2nd Annual Life March. A pro-life movement, that also drew, the other side. "If you want to be a...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) - Thousands of pro-life advocates marched to the State Capitol on Sunday for the 37th annual March for Life. A majority of newly elected Arkansas legislators and executive leaders were among those marching in the rally marking the 42nd anniversary of the issuing of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. Wayne Mays, president of Arkansas Right to Life, touted the unprecedented number of pro-life political candidates elected to office in Arkansas during the past general election. He said he feels more confident than ever with majority of Arkansas's elected officials sharing similar views to his...

DENVER - A large pro-life crowd gathered at the Colorado State Capitol Saturday, led by Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila and other dignitaries. Aquila celebrated mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception prior to the march on the capitol, billed as "March for Life Colorado." Other dignitaries who spoke to the crowd included Lynn Grandon, Respect Life, Archdiocese of Denver; Pastor Biff Gore, President of Colorado Right to Life and Chris Stefanick, President of Real Life Catholic Church.

AUGUSTA — Anti-abortion activists descended on the State House on Saturday as Republican lawmakers try to tighten access to abortion under federal and state laws. The annual rally – featuring speeches by Gov. Paul LePage and U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin – culminated in a march from St. Michael School to the State House, where demonstrators joined hands around the building. A bell tolled 42 times, one for each year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion nationwide. Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill this month that would ban abortion after the 20th...

Former city pastor serves as keynote speaker for event Abortion opponents held their 41st annual March for Life in Fort Wayne on Saturday afternoon, marching from the St. Mary’s Performing Arts Center on West Berry Street to the federal courthouse downtown, some praying as they walked, some singing hymns and others walking silently. Police estimated that 2,500 to 3,000 people participated in the march, which at its peak stretched from Berry Street downtown to Douglas Street behind the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory. Once at the federal courthouse, marchers heard hymns and more speakers, including some expressing regret they had had an...

RALEIGH — When the Love My Life rally began five years ago, 300 teens and their parents attended, a group small enough for the Sacred Heart Cathedral in downtown Raleigh to handle. On Saturday, the anti-abortion event, sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, drew roughly five times that number as middle and high school students packed into a huge heated tent on the Halifax Mall in the heart of the state government complex. Those numbers augmented the annual anti-abortion march later that afternoon that ran the length of a city block. The rally featured contemporary Christian music with a...

Pro-life student groups have been claiming for years that their supporters outnumber abortion supporters, and now there’s proof. As activists nationwide prepare for Thursday’s annual March for Life to protest the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, Planned Parenthood boasted that they had more than 200 groups on college campuses. But that number is down from prior years when they claimed some 225 and is far outnumbered by just one anti-abortion college and high-school group called Students for Life of America. President Kristan Hawkins told the Washington Examiner that they have 838 college offices and are expanding....

Students who attend Catholic schools in North Dakota will carry the lead banner next week in the annual March for Life on the National Mall in Washington. More than 160 students from schools within the Bismarck Diocese will join their peers from Shanley High School in Fargo to lead a crowd expected to exceed 500,000 in the anti-abortion march, said Nick Emmel, a religious studies teacher at St. Mary's Central High School. While in Washington, students also will attend conferences, tour the monuments and visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, he said. This is the second year students from...

Thousands marched in Dallas today to protest the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision which legalized abortion on demand in America. Thousands of marchers lined up behind pro-life Bikers from Bikers for Life to head toward the Earle Cabell Federal Courthouse, where Roe was originally filed. About 40 bikes lined up in front of marchers. AWESOME PICTURES ON LINK.....GO LOOK!!!

About 1,000 opponents of abortion rallied under damp skies in downtown Portland Sunday and heard from a keynote speaker whose appearance reflected the city's hipster vibe. Bryan Kemper, who once lived in Portland, sported elaborate arm tattoos, ear piercings and a faded T-shirt as he addressed the crowd marking the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision establishing abortion rights. While he was soft-spoken in conversation, there was nothing laid back about Kemper's rhetoric at the Pioneer Courthouse Square rally organized by Oregon Right to Life. He criticized Christian churches that don't do enough to fight abortion...

The first annual OneLife LA, heralded as a celebration of the dignity of every human life from conception to natural death, drew thousands from all over Southern California to downtown Los Angeles. The Jan. 17 event began in the historic La Placita Olvera, where the rapidly growing crowd encircled the gazebo at the plaza’s center. After a prayer from Archbishop José H. Gomez, the assembled crowds began a walk through downtown. They processed along the barricaded route past the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and ended at Grand Park. OneLife LA posters depicting pregnant women, families, the elderly,...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Francis Cardinal George and Archbishop Blase Cupich attended events Sunday in support of the Roman Catholic Church's anti-abortion, pro-life stance. A rally downtown also saw a counter protest by pro-choice supporters. The 10th anniversary of the Chicago March for Life comes as we approach the 42nd anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in the Roe v. Wade case, affirming a woman's right to choose. "Every single unborn child is in the crosshairs of the abortion industry," said Eric Scheidler, Executive Director of the Pro-Life Action League. Shaun Haggerty traveled from Milwaukee for Sunday's rally. "It's about...

It started when 20 braver than brave, elementary-school aged girls sent skyward a yellow balloon, handmade, 75-foot-long rosary from Chicago’s Michigan Avenue bridge claiming the Magnificent Mile for Mary. The school girls had to carry their rosary, cross-first, through downtown Chicago. That was in August of 2011. “The reaction…. “Homeless people gave high fives. Street preachers burst into the singing of Gospel songs. Semi-truck drivers shook the streets sounding their truck horns in approval. (Canada Free Press, August 15, 2011). “A passerby tweeted, ‘A balloon rosary in the air. My faith confirmed:)’

Every life is a gift. That’s the message that the 2015 March for Life is emphasizing for its 2015 event on January 22. The March for Life is an annual event, held each year on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. It was on this day in 1973 that the U.S. Supreme Court found a Constitutional right to abortion despite no mention in the Constitution. Now, 57 million lives later, the pro-life movement shows no signs of slowing. The March for Life began as a small event, but it quickly became the largest peaceful pro-life demonstration in the nation. Here...

Any group traveling to the March for Life in Washington DC next week can get there for just the cost of gasoline. VERC Car Rental, a family-owned small business on the South Shore, is offering free rentals of their fleet of 15-passenger vans. "It's a small gesture on our part but a big gesture for those people who give up a couple of days to go down there and march in the cold. We're happy to support it," said VERC owner Jack Vercollone. Three years ago he realized that the vans -- usually parked in a lot on winter weekdays...

FULL TITLE: Radical pro-abortion group plans “dramatic” confrontations next week at pro-life events in four major cities Stop Patriarchy is a pro-abortion group led by Communist Sunsara Tayler that believes “revolution” and a “counteroffensive” are needed to “radically reset” what it correctly sees as escalating “attacks on abortion.” One tactic of Stop Patriarchy is to engage in “confrontational, dramatic, non-violent” protests. Because the “war on women… is getting worse,” Stop Patriarchy is upping its game, planning protests next week in Washington, D.C., Oakland and San Francisco, California, and Austin, Texas, in conjunction with annual pro-life marches and rallies…. How “radical”...

Well…well…well…our radical pro-abortion communists “friends” ( and I use that term lightly) over at Stop Patriarchy are sure busy little bees this week. Just this week, I blogged that Stop Patriarchy blocked me from their Twitter page (Censorship cowards) after I exposed their intentions to protest the marches in DC and SF. They have made plans to protest pro-life marches in DC and San Francisco and now, they want to protest BLACKS in Oakland, California. Protesting BLACKS? What? Are they a bunch of racists???? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A blog posted published by Life Dynamics has the details- which I am republishing below:...

Sunsara Taylor the head of the pro-choice group, Stop Patriarchy and Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party are joining together to call for their radical abortion supporters to protest the the pro-life March for Life in DC this month, an event they call a March for Female Enslavement. The call to revolution comes in the form of an online video the duo has uploaded to YouTube. “Hi, I’m Sunsara Taylor and I’m Carl Dix and we’re here to challenge and invite you to be with us in the streets to take on the women haters in their war on...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, January 27, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At a Mass held just hours before the 10th annual West Coast Walk for Life, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone praised young pro-life activists, but asked them to “look around and notice those who are your elders here in this church.” “They are the first generation of pro-lifers,” said Cordileone. “It is no understatement to say to you, my beloved young people, that you are here because of them.” Standing in front of at least 3,500 pro-life activists at St. Mary's Cathedral, the Archbishop compared today's pro-life efforts to those of 40...