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The Sixth Annual Walk for Life West Coast was a huge success!
A small portion of what the San Francisco Chronicle referred to as "several thousand" Walk for Lifers.
Here's a great video made by some young people at the Walk:
For more video, pictures and news coverage, visit the Walk for Life West Coast Media Blog.
And save the date! The next Walk for Life West Coast is January 22, 2011!
"Therefore, by the authority
which Christ conferred upon Peter and his Successors, in
communion with the Bishops—who on various occasions
have condemned abortion and who in the aforementioned
consultation, albeit dispersed throughout the world, have
shown unanimous agreement concerning this doctrine—I
declare that direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an
end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral
disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent
human being. This doctrine is based upon the natural law and
upon the written Word of God, is transmitted by the Church's
Tradition and taught by the ordinary and universal
Magisterium. No circumstance, no purpose, no
law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is
intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the Law of
God which is written in every human heart, knowable by
reason itself, and proclaimed by the Church. -Pope
John Paul II; "Evangelium Vitae", paragraph 62, March 25,
1995.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops.
These teachings are rooted in Revelation and also, as the Holy
Father notes, in human reason:
"I came so that they might have
life and have it more abundantly." "My own choice to become pro-life
had nothing to do with religion. It was hastened by a letter
in the Feb. 18, 1990 issue of the Journal of the American
Medical Association by North Carolina physician Joel Hylton:
'Who can deny that the fetus is alive and is a separate
genetic entity? Its humanity also cannot be questioned
scientifically. It is certainly of no other species. That it
is dependent on another makes it qualitatively no different
from countless other humans outside the
womb.' 'It strikes me,' Dr. Hylton
continued, 'to argue one may take an innocent life to
preserve the quality of life of another is cold and carries
utilitarianism to an obscene extreme. Nowhere else in our
society is this permitted or even thinkable -- although
abortion sets a frightening prospect.'" -Mr. Nat Hentoff, world-renowned
journalist.
-Deuteronomy 30:19-20.
-John 10:10
