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The March for Life in Argentina was held online on May 30th and drew hundreds of thousands of participants.\u00a0 The event, which took place virtually due to social distancing measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, had more than 390,000 attendees on Facebook alone, according to the Catholic News Agency<\/a>. The event lasted for two hours on Facebook and YouTube.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s March for Life comes months after Argentina\u2019s President Alberto Fern\u00e1ndez pushed legislation<\/a> to legalize elective abortion in the strongly pro-life country. The president, who describes himself as an abortion \u201cactivist,\u201d pushed the legislation fulfilling a vow<\/a> he made when he abruptly reversed his position on legalizing abortion shortly before taking office. The president\u2019s efforts were postponed due to the outbreak of COVID-19, but before the bill was put on hold due to the pandemic, many Argentinians expressed their opposition. A pro-life mass<\/a> at the Basilica of Our Lady of Lujan brought an estimated 100,000 people together.<\/p>\n

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Faithful attend a mass prayer celebrated by the Argentine Catholic Church in rejection of the bill proposed by President Alberto Fernandez that decriminalizes abortion, outside the Basilica of the Virgin of Lujan, in Lujan, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, on March 8, 2020. (Photo by Alejandro PAGNI \/ AFP) (Photo by ALEJANDRO PAGNI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2018, pro-abortion forces, aided by international abortion groups, tried and failed<\/a> to push through the legalization of elective abortion. Senator Silvia El\u00edas de P\u00e9rez, a pro-life leader in the country\u2019s legislature, told CNA<\/a> that “today’s march has been very positive.\u201d She noted that the 2018 legislation failed, in part, because \u201ca huge number of Argentinians … throughout the country came out to defend their ideas, their rights, to say that in Argentina every life matters and that being born in Argentina should not be a right only for those who are wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0AMAZING: Live Action celebrates ONE BILLION video views<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

El\u00edas de P\u00e9rez also said<\/a>, \u201cit is extremely sad, dramatic, that in the midst of a worldwide pandemic, in which we are fighting for people\u2019s lives, it still occurs to a government to send [to the legislature] this kind of anti-life initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the pandemic, other pro-life events that went online also celebrated large attendance.\u00a0 One of the events for Canada\u2019s virtual March for Life<\/a> caused the website to crash due to the volume of traffic.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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