Tens of Thousand of Pro-Lifers Fill San Francisco Streets

Sixth
Annual Walk for Life West Coast: Tens of Thousands of Pro-Lifers fill
San Francisco Streets

"It is up to us to stand, raise our voices,
and protect the smallest." — Lila Rose, 2010 Walk for Life West Coast

SAN
FRANCISCO,

Jan. 24

/Christian Newswire/ — At least 35,000 peaceful pro-
life walkers filled this city’s waterfront, toddlers holding
hands with grandparents and college students waving
banners, as the largest crowd ever attended the 6th
Annual Walk for Life West Coast, Saturday, January
23rd.

Frank Lee, coordinator of Asian Americans Pro-Life,
led the rally in a prayer at the start, saying: "Every life is
precious and should be cherished. We have a tough
battle in front of us, but we shall overcome when we
combine our efforts to make it a perfect whole!"

Students from San Francisco high schools and from
Stanford, UC-Berkeley, St. Mary’s of Moraga, St.
Thomas Aquinas College, and Wyoming Catholic
College marched alongside eight Catholic Bishops.

One hundred and twenty Catholic seminarians carried
banners and Tom Martin, who worked for former San
Francisco Mayor Willie Brown before entering the
seminary, said: "It’s a great opportunity for the people
of God to see that the seminarians are joining with
them not only in praying for life, but also taking a
stand."

Speakers included Abby Johnson, who worked for
Planned Parenthood for eight years, walked away
from her job as a Planned Parenthood clinic director
in October after assisting in an abortion. Johnson
said: "If you are here, you are an activist. We can no
longer just say the words but must put our words into
action." Johnson joined 40 Days for Life, a national
prayer and fasting campaign outside abortion clinics.
The Walk presented the St. Gianna Molla Award to
David Bereit, national campaign director of 40 Days for
Life.

Lila Rose of Live Action said "The fact that we have
allowed abortion in this great nation, the killing of the
most defenseless and weak among us has resulted
in the greatest human rights abuse I believe our
nation has ever seen. It is up to us to stand, raise our
voices, and protect the smallest."

"If ever there was a time to ‘seize the moment’ in the
interest of unborn babies, it is now," Evangelical
preacher, author and theologian, Pastor Jim Garlow of
San Diego, told the rally.

The Reverend Clenard Childress, founder of
BlackGenocide.org, said "There is an obvious shifting
in our culture and it stems from advances in the pro-
life movement."

Walk for Life co-founder Dolores Meehan said "The
tenacity of pro-lifers, showing up in their tens of
thousands, despite a downpour, is a testimony to their
commitment!"

The Walk for Life West Coast was started by a group
of San Franciscans in 2005 to affirm the right to life
from conception to natural death and particularly to
change hearts hurt by the violence of abortion.

Walk for Life West Coast:
www.walkforlifewc.com