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SAN FRANCISCO: Abortion foes march against Roe vs. Wade The national debate over abortion came to San Francisco's waterfront on Saturday, as thousands of abortion opponents marched peacefully along the Embarcadero while supporters of legal abortion staged a counterprotest alongside them. The march began at noon after a rally at Justin Herman Plaza. By the time the last batch of marchers entered the Embarcadero 35 minutes later, the marchers in front had reached Pier 27 -- half a mile to the north. The dueling events came two days before Monday's 34th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court...

“In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.”- Dr. Warren Hern, MDAbortion practitioner and author of Abortion Practice (1990), the textbook most widely used in the United States to teach abortion to medical personnel"Probably nothing has been as damaging to our cause as the advances in technology which have allowed pictures of the developing fetus, because people now talk about the fetus in much different terms than they did 15 years ago. They talk about it as a human being, which is not something that I have...

San Francisco, CA (LifeNews.com) -- The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will lead an estimated 20,000 people along San Francisco’s waterfront in the fourth annual West Coast Walk for Life. The event is a western equivalent to the national March for Life in Washington and it gives participants a chance to show how abortion hurts women.King's father was slain civil rights activist A.D. King, and their home in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed during the civil rights struggles.This year's event takes place on Saturday, January 19 and Clenard Childress, another African-American pro-life leader and Gianna Jessen, who survived...