Huge pro-life rally again anticipated for 'Portland's living room'

    PORTLAND — In keeping with a recent policy of alternating Oregon’s largest annual pro-life rally between two of the state’s largest cities, the event returns this month to the Rose City’s “living room” —Pioneer Courthouse Square — on Sunday, Jan. 22.
     Coordinated by Oregon Right to Life and supported by a wide range of other pro-life groups and ministries, the Roe vs. Wade Memorial Rally is timed each year to fall on or near the Jan. 22 anniversary of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion on demand. An estimated 54 million lives have been lost to abortion nationally during the intervening 39 years.
      The annual rally had been held for many years outside the State Capitol in Salem, drawing about several hundred people on average, as it did last year. But holding the rallies in downtown Portland in 2009 and 2010 drew far larger crowds — up to an estimated 7,000.

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