Sydneysiders turned up in their hundreds to rally against the growing accessibility of abortion in New South Wales as part of Love Sydney’s annual “Walk for Life” event. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
The event on Saturday consisted of an array of prominent pro-life advocates speaking out against a push to remove conscientious objection rights of healthcare workers across the state and a solemn walk through Hyde Park where attendees held signs calling on Sydney to ‘Stand for Life’.
One advocate, Monica Doumit, Sydney Archdiocese’s director of public affairs and engagement, reflected on how the Walk for Life is one event globally which pushes against the legalisation of abortion, calling to mind the much larger March for Life in the US, which has run annually for 50 years.
Despite being the founder of that event, pro-life advocate Nellie Gray was never able to witness a pro-life victory in her lifetime, Ms Doumit said.
“We may get the opportunity to, but we also may not, and that is why, just like Nellie, we should keep walking, keep witnessing to life in the midst of a culture of death so that a generation yet unborn can praise the Lord,” she urged.
Susan Carter MLC said further education and awareness was required to assist young women who are considering aborting their child; to support them in thinking through the additional consequences of abortion beyond the termination of a pregnancy.
“For most women, the problem is not simply that they are pregnant,” she said.
“It is that they are pregnant and their partner is unsupportive.
“That they are pregnant and they’re worried about how they’re going to pay the bills. That they are pregnant and they are feeling lonely and scared, or too young to cope.
“Abortion may deal with the pregnancy, but the ‘ands’ remain, and they are the issues that we as a compassionate society need to address.”
NSW director for the Australian Christian Lobby Joshua Rowe told The Catholic Weekly after the walk that “many of the people here today are with their families, including myself, because we all love the life God has given us, and the people around us, and that life wouldn’t be possible without a recognition of the dignity and sanctity of life”.
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Hundreds unite in Hyde Park against ‘unthinkable’ levels of abortion access in NSW (By Alex Woolnough, The Catholic Weekly)
