As GOP Yanks Bill . . Rally Speaker Warns That Foes Will Try To Buy Off Pro-Lifers
By DEXTER DUGGAN SAN FRANCISCO — Looking out at a sea of listeners filling City Hall’s expansive Civic Center Plaza here, a speaker compared the pro-life movement’s progress to where the civil-rights movement was in the late 1960s or early 1970s — a social force gaining enough clout that opponents try to buy it off. Many of the tens of thousands present here for the Walk for Life West Coast rally and march on January 24 were keenly aware that national Republican Party leadership had just shocked Washington, D.C., by yanking a bill to restrict late abortions off the U.S. House calendar and replacing it with a weaker measure against abortion funding. Veteran Baptist pastor and civil-rights advocate Clenard Childress…Continue Reading