{"id":312259,"date":"2024-05-13T14:44:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T19:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=312259"},"modified":"2024-05-13T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T16:49:17","slug":"march-life-colombia-tens-thousands-114-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/march-life-colombia-tens-thousands-114-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"March for Life Colombia sees tens of thousands participate in 114 cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On May 4, 2024, tens of thousands of Colombians gathered for the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/257593\/colombians-march-simultaneously-in-multiple-cities-to-demand-end-to-abortion\">18th National March for Life<\/a> in their country.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Colombia\u2019s March for Life is unique in that it has managed to arrange simultaneous marches all over the country, not just a gathering in the country\u2019s capital, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bogot\u00e1. This year the march spread across 114 cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the past few years, Colombia has passed several rulings to decriminalize abortion, leading it to have one<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the most liberal abortion laws in Latin America today. This makes the March for Life very important. The theme this year was, \u201cColombia, With Life There Is Hope\u201d and the march was organized by the United for Life platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fcitizengouk%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0ZPYxUYMw58TGUPK3RwoFvj5qXjjuF1gQygkvjnYnUchocmkjXKCxE163y3NY1SHQl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500&amp;is_preview=true\" width=\"500\" height=\"727\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bogot\u00e1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the marchers walked to the center of the capital, wher<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e Jes\u00fas Maga\u00f1a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the president of United for Life, addressed the crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He called for the reversal of two specific laws established in 2006 and 2022, which effectively <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/colombia-country-abortion-decriminalize-24-weeks\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">legalized abortion up to 24 weeks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He also reminded the crowd that they were marching for the sacredness of all life, not just preborn babies. Colombia has also seen a rise in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/euthanasia-assisted-suicide-increasing-switzerland-colombia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assisted dying<\/span><\/a>,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Maga\u00f1a and United for Life are also fighting against bills that would make this more available.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said, \u201cAs citizens of Colombia who love, respect, and defend life, we have mobilized in 114 cities throughout the country to fill the streets and squares and proclaim firmly, loudly, and clearly that life is sacred, that it must be respected and cared for from the moment of fertilization until natural death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maga\u00f1a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> urged the government to pass \u201claws that protect life,\u201d and help families, rather than those that contribute to a culture of death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The massive amounts of people that marched for life were a testament to his powerful words: \u201cWe are unwilling to remain silent and stand by in the face of the largest massacre in the country.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maga\u00f1a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was not exaggerating by calling it a &#8220;massacre.&#8221; United for Life reported that there were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/257593\/colombians-march-simultaneously-in-multiple-cities-to-demand-end-to-abortion\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">52,000 elective abortions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Colombia 2023 alone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/actnow.io\/ARQQhk1\"><b><i>The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail for protesting the killing of preborn children. 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