Turnout
An estimated 10,000 pro-lifers attended the annual March for Life UK in central London last Saturday. Organisers appropriately chose “Abortion Isn’t Healthcare” as this year’s theme and as the message emblazoned across the large banner at the front of the march.
In Parliament Square, the crowd was addressed by well known pro-life campaigners, including post abortive father Angel Ceballos who grieved the abortion of his child, former abortionist Dr Haywood Robinson, abortion survivor Claire Culwell and Isabel Vaughan-Spruce who recently won a settlement coupled with an apology from the Police after it was deemed her arrest for silently praying outside abortion clinic was in breach of her human rights.
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Dr Haywood Robinson told the crowd: “I was seduced into accepting the vain notion that I, as a physician, could take the life of an innocent human being. I was in denial of the basic science that clearly demonstrates that human life begins at conception.”
Addressing marchers, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce said: “We’re marching because women and their babies deserve far better than abortion. The abortion industry hides behind a charade of false compassion and misinformation. Moreover, unborn children are not a disease to get rid of, but are humans, who should be treated with respect and equality. We need societal solutions that support both lives in every pregnancy”.
She continued: “We have a fundamental human right that’s afforded to every single person in this country – from the frailest pensioner to the busy career man or woman, every mum or dad, teenager or child, every immigrant, legal or illegal, and even to each criminal in our prisons – but not to the most vulnerable and innocent of all, the pre-born child. They are denied the most basic right: the right to life itself”.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the March for Life UK and the turnout at last Saturday’s event was by far and away the largest to date.
