Student 'walks the talk' against abortion with cross-country trek

Published: 2006-07-14

ROMEOVILLE, Ill. (CNS) -- Jamie Racki, a junior at Benedictine University in Lisle celebrated her 21st birthday July 5. She could have chosen the route that some college students follow -- partying into the wee hours of the next morning. Instead, the member of Our Lady of Peace Parish in Darien continued her 11-week journey of professing her pro-life beliefs by walking across the country. "It wasn't a tough question of what to do on my 21st birthday," she told the Catholic Explorer July 15 in a telephone interview. She talked to the Joliet diocesan newspaper on her cell phone while she walked. "I couldn't think of a reason good enough not to do it," she said about participating in the 2006 northern walk of Crossroads, a pro-life initiative started in 1994 by Steve Sanborn, then a student at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. On May 20, Racki started the walk in Seattle. During the July 15 interview, she was in Illinois, traveling along U.S. Route 14 from Mount Prospect to Des Plaines. She planned to continue her trek through Aug. 11.

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