{"id":288317,"date":"2023-04-01T13:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T18:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=288317"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T20:37:12","slug":"abortion-supporters-throw-garbage-pro-life-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-supporters-throw-garbage-pro-life-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion supporters throw garbage in attempt to disrupt pro-life prayer walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Pro-lifers participating in the seventh annual <a href=\"https:\/\/personhoodeducationny.com\/international-gift-of-life-walk-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Gift of Life Walk NYC<\/a> were forced to endure harassment from counter-protestors who threw garbage in the street in an attempt to deter the marchers from their path.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/253952\/pro-life-marchers-in-nyc-dodge-garbage-weather-counter-protesters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic News Agency<\/a>, approximately 300 pro-lifers gathered in the cold rain for the one-mile walk, as they attempted to bring attention to the pro-life cause. A heavy police presence separated the marchers from roughly 30 abortion advocates, who shouted at the pro-lifers and rang cowbells to distract from the pro-lifers&#8217; prayers. The pro-abortion protestors also piled garbage along the marchers&#8217; path.<\/p>\n<p>Bernadette Patel, a pro-lifer from New York, told CNA that the pro-abortion presence at this year&#8217;s march was much more disruptive than last year&#8217;s \u2014\u00a0a sentiment echoed by\u00a0Father Lawerence Schroedel, CFR, who noted that there wasn&#8217;t &#8220;any opposition&#8221; at last year&#8217;s march. However, Fr. Schroedel called these counterprotesters a &#8220;non-issue,&#8221; in spite of their attempts to slow down the marchers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were actually so much more of us than them, it really made us seem all the bigger,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-283198\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dawn Eskew is president and founder of Personhood Education New York, the organization responsible for leading the event. She called the walk a win, particularly because the counter-protestors were not successful in their attempts to slow down the pro-lifers. This is despite the fact that some abortion advocates advertised the event ahead of time on social media platforms in the hopes of gathering a large disruptive crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did what we were called to do. That in itself is a success \u2014 the whole point was to make awareness,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-lifers in NYC are relatively used to dealing with violent and disruptive abortion activists, as abortion supporters have harassed pro-lifers throughout the city in a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-activists-harass-nuns-cathedral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">number<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/witness-life-manhattan-disrupted-halloween-masks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instances<\/a>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-activists-arrested-new-york-cathedral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2022<\/a>, five abortion supporters were arrested after they disrupted a monthly prayer walk to a Planned Parenthood abortion facility, and in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-lifers-mobbed-witness-life-procession-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2022<\/a>, the same procession was mobbed by abortion supporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><i><strong>Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000 people with the truth about abortion that no one else is telling them? 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