Thousands of protesters on Wednesday braved frigid wind chills and individual chiffre temperatures as they rallied in Washington, D.C., adjoin legalized abortion.
The ceremony Advance for Activity assemblage in the nation’s capital, which takes abode every year on the ceremony of the Supreme Court’s 1973 accommodation to acknowledge aborticide a “constitutional right,” started with a ample assurance addition from Pope Francis who said in a tweet: “I accompany the Advance for Activity in Washington with my prayers. May God advice us account all life, abnormally the a lot of vulnerable.”
Thousands of supporters marched in Washington, D.C., Wednesday afternoon adjoin legalized aborticide (image source: TheBlaze/Eddie Scarry)
“The accident draws abounding Catholic top academy and academy acceptance from beyond the country for a alternation of contest and adoration vigils arch up to a assemblage and advance on the National Mall,” the Associated Press reported.
One attendee told TheBlaze’s Eddie Scarry she relates to the assemblage because “the humans that are pro-life accept in Jesus and arresting life.” (image source: TheBlaze/Eddie Scarry)
President Barack Obama aswell apparent the break by issuing a account Wednesday, adage the 41st ceremony of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade accommodation is a adventitious to “recommit ourselves to the decision’s allegorical principle: that every woman should be able to accomplish her own choices about her physique and her health.”
Many who marched adjoin legalized aborticide were women, according to Scarry (image source: TheBlaze/Eddie Scarry)
Many of the pro-life marchers were actual young. Abounding appeared to be in top academy angel source: TheBlaze/Eddie Scarry)
The admiral added in his account that nation accept to abide to “defend” women’s admission to “safe, affordable bloom care” as able-bodied as their “reproductive freedoms.”
“And we boldness to abate the amount of adventitious pregnancies, abutment affectionate and adolescent health, and abide to body safe and advantageous communities for all our children,” the account said. “Because this is a country area anybody deserves the aforementioned abandon and opportunities to accomplish their dreams.”
Students for Life, a acclaimed pro-life group, came out in ample numbers for Wednesday’s assemblage (image source: TheBlaze/Eddie Scarry)
The National Organization for Women, a acclaimed pro-abortion group, was aswell in appearance (image source: TheBlaze/Eddie Scarry)
Pro-abortion advocates met in foreground of the Supreme Court to accept their choir heard (image source: TheBlaze/Eddie Scarry)
March for Activity organizers chose acceptance as this year’s theme.
Organizers hoped Wednesday to advice annihilate the “stigma about acceptance as an another to aborticide for abundant women who face difficult situations,” the AP reported.
March for Activity attendees backpack a bronze of the Virgin Mary through the streets of Washington, D.C. (image source: TheBlaze/Eddie Scarry)
House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told assemblage attendees Wednesday morning that Republicans will anon authority a vote to put an end to taxpayer-funded abortions, the address added.
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