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To: firebrand
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)

18 posted on 01/23/2002 8:49:01 AM PST by CounterCounterCulture
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To: CounterCounterCulture
Thanks for the interesting west coast March for Life report. What a shame you had to deal with such radical pro-abort extremists.
67 posted on 01/24/2002 5:42:43 PM PST by nutmeg
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