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Thousands brave cold to attend Chicago anti-abortion march
yahoo.com ^ | January 17, 2016 | Renita D. Young and Mary Wisniewski

Posted on 01/20/2016 7:54:58 AM PST by Morgana

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Thousands braved bitter cold temperatures for a "March for Life" in downtown Chicago on Sunday, five days before the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide.

Demonstrators held yellow balloons with "life" printed on them as organizers passed around rosary beads and others danced to music to keep warm in temperatures that hovered just above 0 degrees Fahrenheit (-18 Celsius).

"This is about the soul of our nation that we gathered here today," Archbishop Blase Cupich of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, told a crowd that organizers said numbered about 5,000. "As we bundle up in the cold today, we want to make sure the children are also born into a world that warmly welcomes them."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: abortion; prolife; roevswade

1 posted on 01/20/2016 7:54:58 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

I will be in DC on Friday for the March. Hopefully I will be out of DC before the storm!


2 posted on 01/20/2016 7:58:55 AM PST by Michigander222
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To: Morgana; Michigander222; lightman

Orthodox Christians for LIFE!

http://www.oclife.org


3 posted on 01/20/2016 8:03:27 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Morgana

Ugh . . . the comments at the end of that article. Such hatred from the pro-aborts.


4 posted on 01/20/2016 8:31:17 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Michigander222

Travel safe. My granddaughter and I applied to go with our archdiocese but then decided not to go. She doesn’t travel well in buses. Now I’m looking at Topeka.


5 posted on 01/20/2016 8:46:07 AM PST by Mercat (But God prefers crockpots to microwaves.)
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To: Mercat

Thank you! Not sure I will travel well in a bus either (going with my daughters 8th grade class)....feeling anxious!


6 posted on 01/20/2016 8:52:48 AM PST by Michigander222
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