Pro-life walk in San Francisco draws 15,000 participants

Published: 2006-01-24

SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) -- Participation in the second annual Walk for Life West Coast was nearly double that of last year's inaugural effort to bring the peaceful message to San Francisco that "women deserve better than abortion." About 15,000 people from around California joined Jan. 21 at San Francisco's Justin Herman Plaza for talks and prayer before making the two-and-a-half-mile trek through the tourist-packed Embarcadero and Fisherman's Wharf to the Marina Green. Walk organizers and the San Francisco Police Department, which deployed several hundred officers, were prepared for a disruptive counterprotest as an anarchist group and the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights had threatened to shut down the walk. The entire day proceeded without serious incident, however, as the counterprotest was significantly smaller than last year.

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