This weekend, American Life League's Summer Crusade for Life — a 1,300 mile walk from Maine to Washington, D.C. by 12 pro-life Catholic college students witnessing to the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death — arrives in New York state.
Tomorrow, July 10, beginning at 8:30 a.m., the walkers will conduct a march from Brooklyn to the Bronx that will include stops outside six abortion clinics along the way — including the nation's second largest abortion clinic in Manhattan. The march will begin at 44 Court Street in Brooklyn and end at 349 East 149th Street in the Bronx.
“In a city that has experienced so much sorrow and loss of innocent human life in recent times, we feel it is important that women know the truth about abortion. It is not their only option, and it always results in at least two casualties: the mother and her child,” said Emily Bissonnette, a Crusade walker and a senior at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. “This march will give us the opportunity to affirm the two basic tenets of our effort: the hidden reality of the child in the womb and the hidden reality of Christ truly present in the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.”
The walkers will also carry the Crusade's pro-life message and mission to local parishes and Church officials as they travel through the state. “We are here to encourage Cardinal Edward Egan and all of the bishops in the state of New York to make clear to the faithful that fundamental truth of the Catholic faith: 'You cannot be Catholic and pro-abortion,'” said Bissonnette.
The Summer Crusade for Life is part of American Life League's Crusade for the Defense of Our Catholic Church, an effort launched in January 2003. American Life League is calling on all Catholic bishops in the United States to enforce Church law (Canon 915) and bar all known pro-abortion “Catholic” public figures from receiving Holy Communion until they publicly recant their public support for the “grave moral evil” of abortion and return to communion with the Church through the sacrament of Penance.
(This update courtesy of the American Life League.)
