2008 Walk for Life West Coast

Photos by Gerald Augustinus (The Cafeteria is Closed) taken at the 2008 Walk for Life West Coast in San Francesco.

More photos at: Walk for Life Photos Part I & The face of the pro-life movement.

I watched the repeat of EWTN's coverage of the event. There were a lot of great speakers including Dr. Alveda King. She quoted her uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's statement about not sacrificing children saying that with abortion we are doing the very thing that he warned us not to do. Gianna Jessen shared her story of how she survived the abortion her mother had to kill her. Other speakers included Rev. Dr. Clenard Howard Childress, Jr, Director of LEARN; Jesse Romero, Radio Host and Evangalist; & Fr. Frank Pavone from Priests for Life.

Many of the speakers, Protestant & Catholic, spoke of the example of St. Telemachus. He was a 4th Century hermit who went to Rome to protest the gladiatorial contests being held. He was attacked & eventually killed while speaking out at the Coliseum by the combatants. Seeing him lying dead there the crowd left & 3 days later Emporer Honorius. The point being that we need to be ready to lay down our lives if need be. & even more so, not to let anything silence us. His example showed that we can & will change things if we are faithful to God's calling to battle abortion & the "culture of death".