- Additional marches gather thousands of supporters in St. Louis, Richmond, Lebanon (Pennsylvania) and many other US cities and towns
- Irish pro life demonstrators held similar but unrelated marches in Dublin on Jan. 19
- Desde Roe vs Wade en 1973, han habido 56 millones de abortos en Estados Unidos
Washington, DC, Jan. 25.─ The tens of thousands of participants at the annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 25 demonstrated just how determined they are not only by showing up in such large numbers on a bitter cold day but by continuing a 40-year tradition of protesting the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion.
"Forty years ago, people thought opposition to the pro-life movement would eventually disappear," Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley told the crowd assembled on the National Mall for a rally prior to the march along Constitution Avenue to the front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
He noted that Nellie Gray, founder of the annual march who died last year, "was not going to allow that to happen" nor was the pro-life movement.
"The march grows stronger every year," said the cardinal, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
Many speakers praised the resiliency of the crowd, braving a cloudy 20-degree day and standing on snow dusted ground ...
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