Abortion 'not the American way,' March for Life organizer says

Published: 2006-01-11

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As a World War II veteran, Nellie Gray thinks abortion is "just not the American way." In the war against Nazi Germany, "my beloved America went over there and stopped the same kind of killing, and then we sat in judgment of them for that at Nuremberg," she told Catholic News Service Jan. 10, referring to the 1946-47 war crimes trials at which German physicians were accused of euthanizing people considered "unworthy of life." "And now my country is doing the same thing," said Gray, president of the March for Life Education & Defense Fund. "Millions of children continue to be killed. It just continues on and on and on." That's why the theme for the 33rd annual March for Life Jan. 23 in Washington is "Roe v. Wade Violates the American Way." The 2006 march will take place the day after the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that lifted most state restrictions on abortion, since Jan. 22 falls on a Sunday this year. The march always takes place on a weekday to permit marchers to visit the offices of their representatives in Congress afterward. In addition to events in the nation's capital, other groups were planning two major marches on the West Coast.

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