Two marchers for Life – a mother and a daughter. First, the daughter, from the West Coast March for Life:<\/p>\n
\n\nIt was pretty interesting. There were a LOT of pro-life marchers … It
seemed like everyone else walking was Christian. That probably
shouldn’t have surprised me as much as it did, but I guess I never
thought of the abortion issue as having anything to do with religion.
It’s really hard to tell how many pro-choice people there were, or
what the ratio was. Just from looking I thought it was a lot smaller
than 1:2, because it seemed like they just had the same 50-100 people
going up and down the pro-life group and being really loud (and they
were really loud), but that might also have just been because most of
the time I couldn’t see all that far behind me. <\/p>\nThey had lots of signs and cheers, only about a third of which had anything to do with abortion. Most of them were about Bush and a lot were about gay rights. A lot of them were just stupid, childish, or disrespectful(or a combination of the three) – like "Abort more Christians." We
were asked before the march not to respond to them and not to chant,
because apparently last year that just got them riled up and they
started spitting on people and attacking people and stuff. This year
there were a lot more police, though, and they made sure there was a
big physical space between the two sides. They said they found a
couple of people with boxes of tomatoes on a bridge we were supposed
to pass under and took them off, but other than that I don’t think the
pro-choice people tried to physically interfere. It was pretty tame,
for the most part. Also, I took a look at the SF Chronicle this
morning and I thought their account was pretty fair, which was nice to
see after everyone had been talking about how the media was going to twist the story.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two marchers for Life – a mother and a daughter. First, the daughter, from the West Coast March for Life: It was pretty interesting. There were a LOT of pro-life marchers … Itseemed like everyone else walking was Christian. That probablyshouldn’t have surprised me as much as it did, but I guess I neverthought of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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