Students Going to D.C. to March for Life
This Friday will mark the 43rd consecutive year in which people from all over the United States have marched in the nation’s capital in protest of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion.
Joining in on the march are hundreds of local teenagers who packed their bags and headed out for a 15 hour road trip to Washington D.C.
With a few goodbye hugs, a group of 54 local teenagers and adults said farewell to their families and hopped on a bus and headed out to Washington, D.C. Why you may ask? Well, to march for life. Sixteen-year-old Mathilde Gagnet said, “It’s kind of a tradition that a group from OLA goes to D.C. to fight for the babies and march against abortion in front of the Supreme Court and it’s just a fun thing to do so that we can get involved and fight against abortion.”
Gagnet and her youth group from Our Lady Academy in Bay St. Louis weren’t the only ones from the Coast traveling to join in on a 43-year-old fight against abortion. They were joined by over 200 others from Pascagoula to Waveland and Hattiesburg. This is the eighth consecutive year the Biloxi Catholic Diocese has sent a group to the capital to join thousands of others around the nation to keep the fight for unborn babies alive and in the minds of the Supreme Court. “Personally, it’s really important to me because you never know how that baby could grow up. They could cure cancer or become the next president of the United States and end wars. I just think it’s really important not to murder a fetus because you don’t know how their life can end up.”
For 14-year-old and 16-year-old Biloxi High School students Samantha and Megan Sharplin the fight against abortion hits a little closer to home. “I feel more strongly about it because I could have been aborted but instead I was put up for adoption,”said Samantha Sharplin.
More than just gaining the experience of fighting for a cause they say is worthy, Sharplin and Gagnet are also looking forward to their trip for one other reason: the snow. “There’s a blizzard up there right now. It’s going to be really different than down here on the Coast,” said Gagnet.
The local group from the Biloxi Catholic Diocese will march on Friday and come home a day early to avoid being stuck in the blizzard that is forecasted to hit D.C. early next week.
Joining in on the march are hundreds of local teenagers who packed their bags and headed out for a 15 hour road trip to Washington D.C.
With a few goodbye hugs, a group of 54 local teenagers and adults said farewell to their families and hopped on a bus and headed out to Washington, D.C. Why you may ask? Well, to march for life. Sixteen-year-old Mathilde Gagnet said, “It’s kind of a tradition that a group from OLA goes to D.C. to fight for the babies and march against abortion in front of the Supreme Court and it’s just a fun thing to do so that we can get involved and fight against abortion.”
Gagnet and her youth group from Our Lady Academy in Bay St. Louis weren’t the only ones from the Coast traveling to join in on a 43-year-old fight against abortion. They were joined by over 200 others from Pascagoula to Waveland and Hattiesburg. This is the eighth consecutive year the Biloxi Catholic Diocese has sent a group to the capital to join thousands of others around the nation to keep the fight for unborn babies alive and in the minds of the Supreme Court. “Personally, it’s really important to me because you never know how that baby could grow up. They could cure cancer or become the next president of the United States and end wars. I just think it’s really important not to murder a fetus because you don’t know how their life can end up.”
For 14-year-old and 16-year-old Biloxi High School students Samantha and Megan Sharplin the fight against abortion hits a little closer to home. “I feel more strongly about it because I could have been aborted but instead I was put up for adoption,”said Samantha Sharplin.
More than just gaining the experience of fighting for a cause they say is worthy, Sharplin and Gagnet are also looking forward to their trip for one other reason: the snow. “There’s a blizzard up there right now. It’s going to be really different than down here on the Coast,” said Gagnet.
The local group from the Biloxi Catholic Diocese will march on Friday and come home a day early to avoid being stuck in the blizzard that is forecasted to hit D.C. early next week.
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