Our Sister March in Paris: 8th Annual Marche Pour le Respect de la Vie!

The very year the Walk for Life West Coast started, 2005, our brothers and sisters in Paris started the Marche Pour le Respect de la Vie. San Francisco and Paris are now "Villes Jumelles Pour la Vie" (pro-life sister cities) and in 2010 Dolores Meehan spoke at the Marche in Paris and Paul Genoux-Defermont, one of the founders of the Marche came to San Francisco and spoke at the Walk!

Just like us, every year the Marche has grown! Last year, they drew between 40-50,000 prolifers from all over France! Bless them! This year, the Paris Marche will be on January 22. Here's their video from last year:

Walk for Life Covered in Spain!

Or as they say over there "Marcha por la Vida de la Costa Oeste."

They also mention our sister march in Paris, "Marche pour le Respect de la Vie" (which took place today), and Abby Johnson, too.

"Este sábado, cuando se cumplían 38 años de la sentencia Roe V. Wade en la que el aborto quedó legalizado en Estados Unidos, 40.000 personas y diez obispos de la zona se sumaron a la «Marcha por la Vida de la Costa Oeste» que se celebró en la ciudad de San Francisco. Al grito de «las mujeres merecen algo mejor que el aborto» y con pancartas en defensa de la vida, los asistentes caminaron por el Embarcadero de la ciudad californiana. El momento más emotivo de la caminata fue cuando Abby Johnson, ex directora de una clínica de la ONG abortista Planned Parenthood, contó cómo se convirtió después de practicar un aborto a un feto de 13 semanas. «Ustedes son la nueva generación del movimiento pro vida y os puedo decir que los de Planned Parenthood están temblando», afirmó Abby"

2011 Walk for Life Video at Aquatic Park

When an old Priest who attended was asked how many people were there he said "It was a line without end..."

WFL's Lisa Hamrick on Immaculate Heart Radio

Here is the podcast of Lisa's interview with IHR's Chris Lyford:

http://ihrarchive.org/archive/bac-20110120.mp3

Our Sister Walk: "Marche Pour le Respect de la Vie" in Paris

One of the very best things at last year's Walk for Life West Coast was the decaration of San Francisco and Paris as pro-life "Sister Cities" united in the protection of the unborn. Our brothers and sisters in Paris will host their Seventh annual Marche Pour Le Respect de la Vie on Sunday, January 23. God bless them!



Last year, Walk for Life West Coast co-founder Dolores Meehan attended the Marche. Here she is speaking (en Francais) at the Marche:



And Paul Genoux-Defermont--God bless him!--one of the organizers of the Marche came to San Francisco and spoke at the Walk:

Here's a video announcing the 2011 Marche, and one from the 2010 Marche.

To learn more, visit http://enmarchepourlavie.fr/