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Updated: 11:48 PM Mar 13, 2011
Pro-Life Supporters Pray for Aborted Fetuses at Roselawn Cemetery
Local pro-life supporters gather at a Tallahassee cemetery to pray for the end of abortion. Eyewitness News reporter Jennifer Milton tells us about the opening ceremony of the Tallahassee 40 Days for Life Campaign.
Posted: 8:58 PM Mar 13, 2011Reporter: Jennifer Milton Email Address: jennifer.milton@wctv.tv |
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"Back in 1988, the remains of over 680 aborted fetuses were brought to Tallahassee after having been retrieved from a medical waste site in the Chicago area. They were brought here and given a proper funeral and burial, said Chris Moleski.
Over 30 people prayed for children they say never had the chance to be born Sunday. A silent procession with an empty infant casket, followed by the reading of religious scripture, kicked off the 40 days for Life Campaign at the Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee.
"It is a campaign that has been developed to give people an opportunity to bring about an end to abortion through prayer, fasting and community outreach," said Moleski.
But others believe every situation is different, and that the parents-to-be should have the right to choose whether or not they terminate the pregnancy.
"Besides the obvious, it's their body and they get to choose what they'd like to do. I think that having a child that you're not prepared to support is just another equally bad situation because then that child is not going to be able to have the opportunities that the rest of us have," said Steven Lewis.
Pro-life supporters say a baby in the womb is just as much alive as the rest of us.
"Every baby has a right to live, just as you and I have a right to live. And, from the moment of their conception, they are already alive and waiting to be born," said Jean Nixon.
This is the 4th year the 40-days of life campaign has been held in Florida's Capital City.
Officials with the 40 Days for Life Campaign say this is a nation-wide initiative.
Latest Comments
I was present at this prayer service because I am pro-woman, pro-child, and pro-life. Abortion is the taking of an innocent human life, and no one has the right to take the life of another innocent human being.
There are plenty of people wanting to adopt. That's a lie spread by pro-aborts. The same logic was used to keep slavery legal- will you give the freed slave a job if I free him? That's irrelevant - it's still wrong! Slaves didn't choose to be slaves; babies don't choose to be aborted. Some women don't choose abortion; they are coerced, sometimes physically threatened into it by boyfriends and parents. Many women have abortions because they feel they "have no choice." How ironic is that?
I had never really considered how one might obtain a frontal lobotomy from a botched abortion until I thought of the distraught parents of some of these anonymous commenters.
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