FRIDAY
January 26, 2001
volume 12, no. 26
March For Life A Huge Success
WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 24, 01 (CWNews.com/LSN.ca) - Tens of
thousands of pro-lifers took part in the March of Life on
Monday calling for the 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade
decision legalizing abortion to be overturned.
The hundreds of events leading up to the March for Life
included demonstrations, pro-life speeches, sermons, and
interviews. The crowd of tens of thousands, with a huge
youth contingent, was delighted with the message from
President George W. Bush and the announcement that he was
re-establishing a policy banning US funds from
international groups which provide and lobby for abortion.
Two days before the anniversary, Archbishop Justin Rigali
of St. Louis marched with 1,500 pro-lifers after a Mass at
the cathedral to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. The
bishop described Planned Parenthood clinics as a kind of
"Calvary" for unborn children. "It is also a hill of
Calvary-- a place of banishment and execution," he said.
American Life League and Rock for Life encouraged the
thousands of youth present to subscribe to "absolute Truth"
and reject "failed pragmatism," saying that "the pro-life
movement must advance the principle of personhood in
defense of every preborn person from fertilization." On
Monday morning, the groups joined a youth protest at the
Food and Drug Administration headquarters to protest FDA
approval of the RU-486 abortion regimen.
On Sunday, three US cardinals, one cardinal-designate, the
Apostolic Nuncio, over 30 bishops, hundreds of priests, and
over 6,000 faithful gathered at the National Prayer Vigil
for Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception. At the event, held annually on the
eve of the March for Life, Cardinal William Keeler of
Baltimore, chairman of the National Conference of Catholic
Bishops' Pro-Life Committee, delivered a homily decrying
the current "abortion license" as an "evil" and noted its
"poisoning effect" nationwide.
January 26, 2001
volume 12, no. 26
DAILY News regarding the Sanctity of Life
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