Pro-life advocates will gather Wednesday at the state capitol in Sacramento for the first California March for Life to show support for the unborn and to learn what they can do to advance their cause in the state.
“The march is an opportunity for California pro-lifers to unite and encourage state legislators to craft policies that respect the rights of the unborn,” Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Defense and Education Fund, said in an Aug. 4 announcement.
The Aug. 25 event is organized in a partnership between the national March for Life organization and the California Family Council, a pro-life policy group which is the state affiliate of Focus on the Family.
The event will begin with an 11 a.m. rally at the state capitol steps, followed by a march at noon.
Mancini will be among the speakers at the event, as will Jonathan Keller, president of the California Family Council.
Keller said that despite California’s progressive reputation, “when it comes to treating every human life with dignity and respect our Golden State has a tarnished record.”
“We invite all people to join us in celebrating God’s gift of life from conception to its natural end. Let us all recommit ourselves to liberty and justice for all – born and unborn.”
Lea Kalinowski, Northern California regional director with Students for Life, will also speak, as will Assemblyman James Gallagher and State Sen. Shannon Grove, both Republicans.
Large pro-life events have taken place in several major California cities. Walk for Life West Coast has been held in San Francisco for 17 years, while OneLifeLA has been held in Los Angeles since 2015.
Mancini said the California March for Life is the first of its kind in the state. The March for Life website said the Sacramento event will help teach effective lobbying, address specific current issues in California, and inform attendees “what you can do right now to champion pro-life policies to your California elected representatives.”
At the Aug. 25 rally, the opening prayer will be delivered by Greg Farrington, pastor of Destiny Christian Church. The national anthem will be sung by a singer from the same church.
Destiny Christian Church, located in Rocklin, Calif., about 20 miles northeast of Sacramento, made the news in late 2020 for allegedly violating public health measures that barred in-person indoor gatherings to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus, ABC10 News reported. A city spokesperson said multiple people filed code complaints against the church….
The above comes from an Aug. 23 story in Angelus News.
Excellent. Know that you who attend this rally speak for thousands of people like me who can’t make it to Sacramento this weekend. Thank you.
At this particular moment in history, you would have more of an impact on the lives of the unborn if you urged mothers to get vaccinated. Prenatal and infant ICUs are packed with COVID cases because mothers have a fear of the vaccine, and are transmitting it to their infants.
I understand the caution these mothers have – as well they should. And they ought to get every answer they can from legitimate medical professionals. Well intentioned people trying to save fetal lives have really effective things to do right now, and it is to accompany mothers who need to protect themselves and their children from a completely preventable virus. Vaccines are top among them for sure, but masking, distancing and outriding are still helpful in calming the spread of this deadly disease.
YFC, “Prenatal and infant ICUs are packed with COVID cases”?! Where did you get that idea? Check the news, reports and hospitals in your county. Can you provide any reference for that claim?
Yet, nearly 2,000 babies (“fetal lives” as you call them) are intentionally aborted every day in the US.
Our daughter is pregnant and chose to be vaccinated. That was her choice. She didn’t need to have the government make that decision for her and our new grandchild.
Thanks be to God for our evangelical brothers and sisters and others who are standing with us on behalf of life.
I didn’t ask government to make that decision for you. I am asking you and others to make that decision because you choose Christ.
YFC, why won’t you answer my question above? Is it because you made a false claim about “prenatal and infant ICUs are packed with COVID cases?”
And, you don’t know my specific medical condition(s) nor that of my family members or others. Some medical professionals are advising at least some of their patients to not get vaccinated. For some, choosing not to be vaccinated is the right choice. Following Christ and following one’s conscience in this matter may result in different conclusions. Those with hardened, extreme positions on “both sides” seem unable to recognize that. Let’s stop judging one another, either way. It is a matter of prudential judgement, not intrinsic evil, like abortion.
These is no evidence to back up YFC’s claims. The evidence actually shows increases in miscarriages to the pregnant women who take the covid vaxx, look it up. That alone should caution them to reject the shot, when someone else’s life literally depends on them.
Folly to inject pregnant mothers with anything not absolutely necessary. Covid vaxx is a risk most mothers will not, and should not take.
For example https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/rccm.202006-2182LE