Pro-life events held around U.S. show ongoing opposition to abortion

Published: 2008-01-23

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Pro-life activities in California, Washington, Pennsylvania, Illinois and the District of Columbia, among other places, highlighted the continuing opposition in the United States to legalized abortion. San Francisco's fourth annual Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 19 drew thousands of people. Among the participants were Bishop Tod D. Brown of Orange, Calif., who concelebrated a Mass with several other West Coast bishops at St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral in San Francisco; Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life; actor Eduardo Verastegui, star of the movie "Bella"; and Alveda King, niece of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. On Jan. 20, more than 700 gathered in St. Joseph Cathedral in San Diego for a prayer and procession against abortion, led by San Diego Auxiliary Bishop Salvatore Cordileone. The procession stretched out for three city blocks. Thomas McKenna, president of Catholic Action for Faith and Family, which organized the event, called it a "procession of reparation" to decry the Jan. 22, 1973, Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton that legalized abortion.

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