{"id":330689,"date":"2025-05-05T08:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=330689"},"modified":"2025-05-05T08:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:16:55","slug":"abortion-protesters-disrupt-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-protesters-disrupt-prague\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion protesters disrupt March for Life in Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A March for Life on April 26 in Prague, Czech Republic, was thwarted from reaching its final destination after pro-abortion activists formed a blockade, halting the marchers.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expats.cz\/czech-news\/article\/pro-choice-protesters-block-prague-march-for-life-as-european-abortion-rights-debate-intensifies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Czech News Agency<\/a> (\u010cTK),\u00a0the march was <a href=\"https:\/\/english.radio.cz\/annual-pro-life-rally-and-counter-protest-take-place-prague-8849368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organized<\/a> by the group Movement for Life. It started with a Catholic mass at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, and pro-lifers then gathered at Hrad\u010dansk\u00e9 Square with the intent of marching to Wenceslas Square. That attempt was halted when several hundred pro-abortion protesters formed a blockade. Police arrested around 30 of those counter-protesters.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHnutiProzivotCR%2Fposts%2F1111198214381083&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"789\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Movement for Life posted about the incident on its Facebook page. A translated statement says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>On Saturday the 26th On April 2025, the right to assemble several thousand participants of the March for Life was grossly violated. Mostly families with children faced hate speech and intimidation in downtown Prague. The gathering was subsequently blocked in the narrow streets by extremist groups. Police of the Czech Republic has limited itself to formal steps without any real effort to clear the way, which actually enabled and encouraged unlawful and violent behavior.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>We are considering next steps \u2014 complaints to the Minister of the Interior, the Police President and other responsible institutions. But first and foremost, we will defend ourselves legally and demand that the courts decide whether it is permissible for citizens, including parents with children, to be intimidated and attacked if they want to express their opinions freely.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/no-fertility-issues-buy-sperm-embryos-ivf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She had no fertility issues, but chose to \u2018buy sperm\u2019 and create embryos through IVF anyway<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A statement from the Archdiocese of Prague noted that the March for Life was &#8220;ended prematurely&#8221; due to the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abort-report.eu\/statistics\/czech-republic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal<\/a> in the Czech Republic for any reason up to 12 weeks and through 40 weeks if the baby receives a health diagnosis or to save a woman\u2019s life, though induced abortion \u2014 the intentional and deliberate killing of a preborn child \u2014 is not medically necessary. Data from the Czech Statistical Office <a href=\"https:\/\/hnutiprozivot.cz\/blog\/3048?fbclid=IwY2xjawKEc7hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFjWkJxdzlFcVFYU3FSa2pWAR5pE28jumfrEkMtXmvwsYj1VlMrJ4FymjPj_5C8aYq3U3Y-Pmf7zRoN3xmqdQ_aem_8aXP-oKslnQqRARq2kVzGA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that in 2024, 15,000 preborn lives were lost due to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u010cTK reports that abortion advocates are fighting to expand the country&#8217;s laws and abortion access even further, claiming there is still considerable abortion opposition within the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/actnow.io\/G3Bhv6M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-325597 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-700x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-700x251.png 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-768x275.png 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-500x179.png 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1.png 1167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A March for Life on April 26 in Prague, Czech Republic, was thwarted from reaching its final destination after pro-abortion activists formed a blockade, halting the marchers. According to The Czech News Agency (\u010cTK),\u00a0the march was organized by the group Movement for Life. It started with a Catholic mass at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":330704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[5,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pro-abortion protesters disrupt March for Life in Prague<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A March for Life in Prague was thwarted from reaching its destination after pro-abortion activists formed a blockade, halting the marchers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-protesters-disrupt-prague\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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