Nearly three thousand people showed up for the North Texas March for Life Rally in Dallas on January 15.
“This march is a safe, peaceful, family-friendly gathering of people from all faiths with one goal in mind: to restore the dignity and sanctity of LIFE,” Theresa Schauf, respect life coordinator, Diocese of Fort Worth, and this year’s Rally emcee told The Dallas Express. “This is a great family event, so bring your family, friends, neighbors, or anyone who values life. This year we want to fill the streets of Dallas.”
The march was sponsored by Texans for Life, Respect Life Office of the Diocese of Fort Worth, Catholic Pro-Life Community, and Respect Life Ministry of the Dallas Diocese.
Many of the marchers carried anti-abortion signs. “There is no choice without life,” read one sign, the Dallas Morning News reports. There were no reports of pro-abortion rights counter-protesters present.
Speakers at the event were Most Reverend Edward J. Burns Bishop of Dallas Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Sylvia Johnson-Mathews, Founder-Executive Director of the Houston Pregnancy Help Center, Zach Nese, Pastor Gateway Church North Fort Worth, Angie Hammond, Training Consultant National Christian Housing Organizations, Natalia Pardo, Project Gabriel, and Theresa Schauf, Respect Life Coordinator, Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth.
“We need our city, state, and nation to take notice,” Geralyn Kaminsky, executive director of Catholic Pro-Life Community, told The Dallas Express. “Our nation — and women — deserve better than abortion.”
Annette Kearns, Director of Communications at Catholic Pro-Life Community, told The Dallas Express. “Texans United for Life (now Texans for Life Coalition) sponsored pro-life marches throughout the 1980s and ’90s, and in 1996 began a Memorial Mass and Rose Procession to the now-closed Fairmont abortion facility.”
In 2003, she said, Texans for Life resumed the ecumenical marches and rallies in downtown Dallas. Four years later, in 2007, CPLC, the Diocese of Ft. Worth, and TLC joined forces to sponsor the North Texas March for Life to bring a more prominent, united presence to the city where Roe began.
“In recent marches, we have seen upwards of 10,000 marchers,” Kearns said. “2022 will be a pivotal year with the Supreme Court ruling expected in late June in the Mississippi case, Dobbs vs. Jackson. This, along with the Court’s recent refusals to block the Texas Heartbeat Act, suggests [in my opinon] the Supreme Court is ready to curtail abortion and possibly even overturn Roe vs. Wade.”
“We are closer now than we have EVER been to restoring protection to preborn babies and moms,” said Kyleen Wright, president of Texans for Life Coalition. “We must show up and make our voices heard.”
More details can be found at northtexasmarchforlife.org
The Dallas Express made attempts to contact pro-abortion organizations, but all of the organizations declined to comment or return calls. No pro-abortion organizations were present at the North Texas March for Life.
It is about human rights and the exploitation of privilege; taking another human life because you have the legal right to do so. Talking about systemic exploitation to maintain one’s privilege. In the Majority World, a very significant percentage of abortions are for gender (that’s biology) selection, getting rid of an unwanted unborn little girl.