March For Life

March For Life Draws Huge Crowds In Washington

... Tens of thousands pouring into the streets for the annual March for life. Crowds as far as the eye could see. Life is winning again in America. Reporter: For the first time ever, the vice president speaking. We will not rest until we restore a culture of life in the U. S. Reporter: The president tweeting, "To all of you marching, you have my full support!" The trump administration is already making the fight against abortion a priority. The president signing an order to ban foreign aid to abortion providers abroad. I feel like we might be getting somewhere. Reporter: The new administration giving new hope to demonstrators. Is Donald Trump a game changer here? Possibly. Hopefully. We have a president speaking for the unborn. It's a huge difference. Reporter: Anti-abortion activists are calling for a ban on federal funding for planned ...

Why I March For Life

... National Mall before the start of the March for Life. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images. Bianca Checo and Bridget Bicek, cheer on Utah Senator Mia Love during the March for Life in Washington. Jarrad Henderson, USA TODAY. Thousands of people rally on the National Mall before the start of the March for Life. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images. Kellyanne Conway, senior aide to US president Donald Trump, speaks at the March for Life rally on January 27, 2017 in Washington. Tasos Katopodis, AFP/Getty Images. Vice President Mike Pence, his wife Karen Pence and their daughter Charlotte Pence arrive for a rally on the National Mall before the start of the annual March for Life. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images. People prepare to march during the annual March for Life in Washington. Jarrad Henderson, USA TODAY. Members of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property hold an 'Our Lady of Fatima' statue while participating in the March for Life in Washington. Michael Reynolds, European Pressphoto Agency. People march up Constitution Avenue en route to the U. S. Supreme Court the annual March For Life. Carolyn Kaster, AP. A pro-life activist ...

March For Life Is A Patchwork Of Little Platoons

... Miami, every corner of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Boston, Mississippi, Baltimore — the groups came from all over. Parishes, Scout troops, youth groups, high schools, college students, seminarians, groups of senior citizens, and women's groups all marched. Lutherans for Life, Anglicans for Life, Humanists for Life, Feminists for Life, and Knights of Columbus chapters from across the country all carried banners. A handful of parishes from Central Michigan got together five busses to drive 12 hours. Melissa Shields, youth minister at St. Brigid Church in Midland organized her parish's group, coordinating with officials in the Sagninaw Diocese. A parish from Marshfield, Wis., rode 20 hours in a bus. "I've been bringing groups out here for 10 years," said Dan Kitzhaber, the organizer. The Diocese ...

You Want To See The Women Of America? Here They Are

... this message of love and forgiveness would get out to the women of America, that the God of the Bible, and everyone who follows Him, love those women who have made this tragic choice, and want to extend the love of Jesus to those women.”. Added Metaxas: “ABC News, are you covering this?”. He also urged compassion on abortion advocates, pointing to Madonna, who in the wake of Trump’s victory, notoriously stated she was “thinking a lot about blowing up the White House.”. Metaxas said that while he was outraged at abortion, “I have not thought a lot about blowing up Madonna’s house.”. “And the reason I have not thought a lot about blowing up Madonna’s house is because the Lord I follow commands me to love my enemies,” he said. “When Jesus told us to pray for our enemies, we’re crazy, we do it.”. Metaxas ended by leading the crowd in a prayer for the pop-star: “Madonna, Jesus loves you and we’re going to pray that his love be revealed to you and everybody that was at the Women’s March.”. FREE pro-life ...

March For Life Crowd Headed To National Mall On Friday

... expected some women would attend the March for Life for the first time after they saw the Women's March last week. Organizers of that march stated a pro-abortion rights platform. "What we've seen is a frustration at the level of, many women have never participated in the march, but they want their voice heard too," she said. The group received a permit from the National Park Service to host an estimated 50,000 people. Mancini said Thursday that they're expecting a crowd "in the tens of thousands, if not more.". The event is set to begin at 11:45 a.m. Friday with music, a rally and then a march. The rally will begin on the grounds of the Washington Monument. Then, participants will march along Constitution Avenue to Capitol Hill and the Supreme Court. Mancini told people who plan to attend to expect "airport-like security" because some speakers at the event are high-profile. Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to ...

March For Life Heads To The Supreme Court

... that they’re advocating an end to all abortion without exception, showed a video. The video featured an abortion clinic and a patient struggling away from the exam table, running out the office and down the street barefoot and sobbing. As those images played, the energized crowd began to slowly march to the Supreme Court, where every year they demonstrate on the steps. March president Jeanne Mancini has said the marchers are demanding a national ban on abortion after 20 weeks, a Supreme Court Justice who opposes abortion and permanent status for the Hyde amendment, which blocks federal funding of abortion except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother’s life. And we're off! We march for LIFE! #Why We March #March For Life __link__/Tmbsb Fu ID 3. — March for Life (@March_for_Life) January 27, 2017. Here are some ...

Enthusiasm For Trump Marks March For Life

... Zielen-Ersing, 52, of West Falls, said at a pre-march breakfast sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo. "I think everyone is ecstatic. Everyone is upbeat," said Stasia Zoladz Vogel, the longtime president of the Buffalo Regional Right to Life Committee. The first week of the Donald J. Trump administration gave anti-abortion activists plenty to get excited about. First, Trump issued an executive order barring non-government organizations that discuss or advocate abortions overseas from receiving U. S. foreign aid. Then the heavily Republican House passed legislation that would ban abortion coverage in insurance plans sold on state exchanges. And then the administration announced that Trump had asked Vice President Mike Pence to speak at the noontime rally Friday. “We will not grow weary,” Pence told the crowd. “We will not rest, until we restore a culture of life in America for ourselves and our posterity.”. Pence was the highest-level administration official ever to address a March for Life, but he wasn't the ...

Utah's First March For Life To Coincide With National Event

... see no reason that should not extend to other issues, such as euthanasia and the death penalty, mentioned in “The Gospel of Life,” a landmark papal encyclical issued by Pope John Paul II in 1995. Utah Catholic leaders are currently circulating 10,000 postcards amongst all the parishes in the area. They will collect them in February and distribute them to legislators, calling for action against the death penalty and for opposition to proposals to legalize assisted suicide. Pro-Life Utah’s Taylor says she understands the Catholic position, but she also sees a need for an organization that focuses directly on abortion, rather than blending it with other life issues. “There are a lot of different theories about how best to approach this,” she said, “and I respect all these opinions.” But still, Taylor says, she sees a need for a dedicated Utah voice with a pro-life perspective. Personal experience. A ...

New Baylor Lawsuit, Jwp, March For Life

... was facing federal charges in West Virginia. Ma Bone accepted a car and $1,200 on Jan. 20 - with more than $11,000 more collected in a Go Fund Me account about to be donated. On Friday, Mesquite investigators filed an arrest warrant in Dallas County charging Ma Bone with theft of $2,500-$30,000 by deception. Bail was set at $10,000, though police say Ma Bone is currently in federal custody. Dallas Zoo outreach specialist Ryanne Hanley allows students to get an up close view of a flamingo from the Dallas Zoo during a program at Gilbert Cuellar Sr. Elementary School in Dallas on Friday, January 20, 2017. Louis De Luca/The Dallas Morning News. Week in pictures. This past week kept The Dallas Morning News photo staff very busy : from the funeral service of a fallen Little Elm police officer to the Dallas Women's March and from a Dallas Stars goal to a flamingo meet-cute. Jane Sanders runs the controls of the model train display built by her husband Stephen in their Dallas home, photographed on Wednesday, January 25, 2017. Louis De Luca/The Dallas Morning News. Frisco museum will get a ...