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By Oregon Right to Life [6],
On Saturday, May 30, hundreds of pro-life Oregonians gathered to participate in the annual Oregon March for Life, peacefully marching and demonstrating outside the state Capitol building in Salem.
One of the biggest pro-life events in the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon March for Life draws Oregonians who share a common vision of a pro-life future for the state in which every innocent human being is respected and protected from the earliest moments of existence until the end of life.
“Today, as we have for more than fifty years, pro-life people gathered to rally on behalf of the unborn,” Oregon Right to Life Executive Director Lois Anderson said in a Saturday press release. “Each time we march, we mourn those lost to abortion and urgently call for legal protections for every human being.”
March participants had the opportunity to visit a variety of booths hosted by local organizations and chapters of national groups: The Glorify Project, Hope’s Garden Maternity Home, Multnomah County Right to Life, Oregon Family Council, Road to Hope, Salem 40 Days for Life, Salem Right to Life, Salem Sidewalk Advocates for Life, Students for Life of America, and Turning Point USA.
As always, the event program began with the display of an animated counter on a jumbotron that visually depicted the heartbreaking number of abortion victims since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. As the numbers added up, shown against a map of the U.S. representing the equivalent state populations lost to abortion, a bell tolled once for every ten million lives lost.
More than 63 million lives have been lost to abortion since Roe.
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