2020 begins with record-breaking attendances at pro-life marches
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Thousands of pro-life campaigners marched in Denver and Chicago on Saturday calling for an end to abortion.
The marches are part of a nationwide effort to draw attention to the more than 600,000 abortion procedures carried out in the US each year and call for laws that support women and protect unborn babies.
These two marches took place just two weeks before the national March for Life in Washington, which attracted hundreds of thousands of pro-life marchers last year.
A record-breaking 9,000 people attended the March for Life in Chicago, Illinois which had the theme ‘Life Empowers: Pro-Life is Pro-Woman!’
Ahead of the march, the March for Life Chicago board president, Dawn Fitzpatrick, told the Chicago Tribune,
“There’s more people in Illinois and the Midwest who recognize the urgency of this. We recognise that there’s a human being that’s created from the moment of conception.”
Over 8,000 people gathered for the Celebrate Life rally in Denver, Colorado carrying signs that read...
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