3.6 Million Participate in March for Life in Argentina

Demonstrators chanted slogans like “I vote for life,” and carried signs saying, “I want to be born. I am eight weeks old. My life is in your hands,” according to La Nación.

One of the 350,000 protesters in the capital, Buenos Aires, told the Argentinian newspaper, “We want to demonstrate to the deputies that the people doesn’t want abortion to be permitted. It brings two lives to an end: the child’s and the woman’s.”

The bill that will be examined on June 13, 2018 would legalize abortion during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy at the State’s expense. The bill has never before made it past the parliamentary commissions, but this time it seems there is a real possibility of it becoming a law.

Although early polls published several months ago indicated that a majority of Argentinians were in favor of legalizing abortion, a recent poll commissioned by the government indicates that the number of those who support the pro-life side is now virtually equal to the number who approach the pro-abortion side: 46% to 45%.

March for Life - Rome

5,000 people also marched for life in Rome on May 19, with Cardinal Raymond Burke, former Nuncio to the United States, Monsignor Carlo Maria Viganò, and the archbishop emeritus of Ferrare Comacchio, Archbishop Luigi Negri. Viviane Lambert was also there; she is the mother of Vincent Lambert, the 42-year-old man who has been in a pauci-relational state for several years and whose medical team at the hospital of Reims wishes to put an end to his nutrition and hydration.

The Italian March for Life commemorated the 40th anniversary of the legalization of abortion in the country: Virginia Coda Nunziante – organizer of the March in Italy – said an estimated 6 million lives of unborn children have been terminated in her country.

The relatively small numbers in Rome compared to Argentina are yet another manifestation of the spiritual agony of Old Europe.