Thousands of Pro-Life People Join California March for Life to Protest Abortion

The fourth annual March for Life California in Sacramento today represented a homecoming of sorts for both myself and Priests for Life, where I am the coordinator of street activism and the youth outreach director.

I’m a native of Southern California and Priests for Life was founded in San Francisco in 1991. When a young priest named Father Frank Pavone took the reins of the organization in 1993, its base of operations moved to New York. Since 2017, Priests for Life has been headquartered on Central Florida’s Space Coast. I live in Ohio now.

But our ministry has always been built around traveling to wherever we need to go to get the pro-life message heard, so I made the trip here to march in solidarity with activists living in a state that seems to prefer its citizens dead rather than alive.

Here representing the Silent No More Awareness Campaign was Carol Marie Siedenberg, the campaign’s regional coordinator for San Diego, some 600 miles south. Four other pro-lifers made the long trip with her, and other supporters of Silent No More, a project of Priests for Life and Anglicans for Life, carried signs that read “Women Do Regret Abortion,” and “Men Regret Lost Fatherhood.”

“I wanted to be here because I felt I’m part of the problem. I created the problem by being post-abortive and I want to be part of the solution,” Ms. Siedenburg said. “My being here gave me the opportunity to be interviewed by Channel 13 (CBS) here in Sacramento and I pray to God that the Holy Spirit worked through my voice and will reach out and touch the hearts of some who hear the interview.”

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My trip here started with an invitation to the Defend Life dinner Sunday night, and I was thrilled and honored that some young activists from organizations like Live Action and Pro-Life San Francisco were picking my brain and treating me like an elder of the movement – which, after more than 30 years, I am!

Pregnancy help centers were honored at the banquet, and today at the march, red heart-shaped balloons emblazoned with the words “Love Them Both” – a motto of the help movement – could be spotted throughout the crowd of thousands, and many speakers at the rally talked about the importance of these centers that offer far more support to families than just diapers and bottles.

Today before the march I helped lead a “die-in” organized by the California-based Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust. Thousands watched, enthralled, as young people fell on the ground and draped red blankets over themselves, each representing a baby killed by abortion today.

A band named California Will be Saved led a worship service right in front of the Capitol building. This was the same band that led worship in the middle of Beverly Hills last year during an action that was so successful, the owners of a planned abortion mill were told they were no longer welcome.

Gov. Gavin Newsom never showed his face but that’s no surprise, as he is one of the most abortion-friendly governors in the nation. He’s in the news today for proposing an emergency bill that would allow Arizona abortionists – who soon could find themselves out of work – to perform abortions in the Golden State, and he released a hideously untrue commercial targeting an Alabama law that makes it illegal for people to help minor girls leave the state for abortions.

California pro-lifers have their work cut out for them but they are up to the challenge. On Wednesday, SB 1368, a bill will come up for discussion that would require the state Education Department to make information about pregnancy centers available on its internet website and included in resources disseminated by school districts.

LifeNews Note: Bryan Kemper is the youth outreach director for Priests for Life and the founder of its youth outreach Stand True. He is the author of Social Justice Begins in the Womb and Pro-life is the New Punk Rock. Priests for Life’s Bryan Kemper at the March for Life California in Sacramento with Carol Marie Siedenburg, San Diego regional coordinator for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, and Frank Tooker of San Diego.

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