CV NEWS FEED // At the Texas Rally for Life this weekend, thousands of pro-life Texans celebrated their state’s life-affirming laws outside the state capitol building in Austin, Texas, and warned abortion providers to “stay out” of Texas.
According to Agence France-Presse (AFP) News, Director of Medical Affairs for 40 Days for Life Haywood Robinson said to those gathered at the Rally, “We tell the killers of the baby: stay out of our free state of Texas. Amen.”
The Texas Rally for Life held on January 27 “commemorates the Supreme Court’s tragic Roe v. Wade decision that imposed legal abortion on Texas and the entire nation throughout all nine months of pregnancy,” the event’s website reads,
and celebrates the overturning of the terrible precedent set in 1973… let’s continue the work of turning the tide against this injustice.
AFP reported that many of the pro-lifers at the Rally “[carried] signs with slogans reading ‘Abortion hurts women’ and ‘Pray to end abortion.’”
Texas Alliance for Life board member Clair Culwell told AFP, “We are doing everything we can here at the rally and back in our hometowns to support women who are experiencing unplanned pregnancies.”
Another Rally attendee, Miles Bedlan, told FOX 7 Austin, “I came all the way from Denton, Texas to make my voice heard as a pro-life leftist.” Denton to Austin, TX is nearly a four-hour drive.
An expecting pro-life mother told FOX 7 about the message she is bringing to the Rally. “The message on my stomach is ‘weapon free zone,’” Cassie Kohler said. “The reason I wrote that is to show the people here that my womb is not a place for violence, it’s a place for peace and harmony, where my baby can live safely.”
“I have been involved in the pro-life movement for probably about seven or eight years now and, well, I am pregnant this year, and so I figured it especially important to be here not only as a pregnant person,” Kohler added, “but since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, I do definitely see there is an increased need for a [pro-life] presence here in Texas.”
FOX 7 reported that Vice President and Director of Medical Affairs at the Charlotte Lozier Institute Dr. Ingrid Skop told those present, “We have so much to celebrate. It is estimated that approximately 10,000 babies are alive in Texas today who would not be if the state of Texas had not chosen to support unborn life.”
