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Yesterday was both awesome and sad.

Awesome to personally meet great FReepers in person and to stand up for LIFE - my son and I enjoyed your company!....
...but sad that we had to be there at all.
The amount of young people there always amazes me. I pray they can help right the wrong that this nation has allowed.
It must be a terrible feeling to know that your generation has suffered through an almost silent holocaust....millions dead
on the alter of immorality and materialism.

I admit that I can't look at those graphic pictures of mutilated babies...it makes me sick and sick at heart.

I hope to be alive to celebrate the day when we can March For Life and the OVERTURN of Roe vs. Wade.
That will be a joyous day!

Thanks for the ping. Enjoyed the company of fellow pro-lifers last year in DC.

This year I attended a much smaller walk in Los Altos, California (a little bit north of San Jose and south of San Francisco). This was an annual event the local Catholic Church does (for the record, I'm not Catholic).

The pro-abortion extremists this year came out in force to cause havoc and parallel our march. Some on our side were too nervous to go on with the original plan to march to city hall, not wanting to risk confronation with the extremists since the pro-aborts had planned on merging with our crowd. Half of our group decided not to back down and continued with the original route while the others just walked around the church area.

With only half of us, we only had half the numbers of the pro-aborts who were chanting their usual inane chants. The Catholics did their prayers with the rosary beads thing. Since I'm not Catholic, my sign focused more on the civil rights of the preborn, although some of the Catholics' sign echoed the sentiment. We got near the city hall but turned back toward the church at the end and let the pro-aborts do their thing.

There was plenty of media coverage present and one station that I saw did quite a thorough job covering the event (KTVU-Channel 2)

Thanks for the ping....

You all did a wonderful job. It is an extremely worthy cause that draws people together. Reading through this thread, however, I'm sorry to see that instead of focusing on pro-life, some have seen fit to turn it into yet another "evaluation" of Catholics and our beliefs.