Walk for Life marchers brave cold, carry message
Participants in Sunday's Walk for Life march in Moses Lake carried a variety of signs with anti-abortion messages.
MOSES LAKE - About 150 Walk for Life marchers faced the wind and
cold Sunday to take their anti-abortion messages to Moses Lake
drivers.
The annual march is done nationwide to protest the 1973 Supreme
Court decision, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the U.S.,
according to a Friday Columbia Basin Herald article.
MOSES LAKE - About 150 Walk for Life marchers faced the wind and cold Sunday to take their anti-abortion messages to Moses Lake drivers.
The annual march is done nationwide to protest the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the U.S., according to a Friday Columbia Basin Herald article.
Carrying large, professionally printed signs, participants included young children with their parents, on up to senior citizens.
Messages like "Abortion kills children," "El aborto mata niños," "Life, the first alienable right," "Abortion hurts women," "Lord forgive us and our nation," and "Adoption, the loving option," were some of the signs provided to participants.
They carried those signs and walked up Stratford Road and along Valley Road for motorists and passersby to see.
While waiting in the former Kmart parking lot, Tom and Olga Hickman of Moses Lake said they've taken part in the event for at least 20 years.
The first year, about 12 people showed up in Moses Lake.
"When we first started out, people would curse at us," Tom recalled. "Now they honk their horns and wave at us. You can't kill babies. That's the bottom line."
He thinks the younger generation is more aware of the issue than their parents, Tom said.
During a similar march in Washington, D.C., many participants appeared to be in their twenties and thirties.
Nearby Shirley Anzelini, of Moses Lake, said she's attended to the event every year because she doesn't believe in abortion.
"I just can't imagine anyone having an abortion," she said.
Paula Dempster, of Moses Lake, said she was taking part to raise awareness about options other than abortion.
"When a young woman finds herself pregnant, there are other options and people to help," she commented.
Phil and Andrea Lawson, of Moses Lake, also attended the event with their two children and dog.
"We just believe abortion is the silent holocaust," Phil said.
He said he wanted to make sure women received the help they needed after an abortion.
Phil explained they love everyone, including those who had abortions.
An abortion is not a woman's only option, Phil added.
Before the march started, organizer Mark Krcma asked organizers to pray that legislation would be passed to cut Planned Parenthood's funding.
He also asked for prayers that Planned Parenthood would have a change of heart and realize its wrongs.