Sonoma County abortion opponents rally in SR
Group revives effort for parental notification measure
By MARTIN ESPINOZA
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Sonoma County abortion foes rallied Sunday afternoon in Santa Rosa's Old Courthouse Square, kicking off local petition efforts to resurrect last year's defeated state ballot initiative requiring parental notification for minors seeking abortions.
Also speaking at the rally was Jonathan Krive, a former Santa Rosa Junior College student who won the 2004 NRLC-sponsored National Right to Life Oratory Contest.
Krive, the current vice president of the High School Conservative Clubs of America, compared abortions in the past 33 years to the Holocaust.
"Abortion is America's Holocaust, but of greater magnitude," Krive said at the rally. "Forty-six million unborn babies have been aborted."
Krive acknowledged that many people, including Holocaust survivors and their descendents, would find such a statement offensive. But if fetuses are human beings, he said, then abortion is genocide.
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1 comment:
It's great to hear about the outcry against Roe v. Wade back home going on while I am practically living on top of the national shrine (which seems to be a sort of mecca of the pro-life on this anniversary)... it's been encouraging and awe-inspiring to watch the energy thrown into the march, as well as the pre-march education.
It's caused an amazing amount of on-campus debate... which of course is always wonderful.
By the way, I didn't know that abortion rates were at their lowest since '75... that's thrilling. I have also heard vague statements about the "youth" being the most sensitive to the issue (I need to check stats).
Keep it up.
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