Hundreds gathered in downtown Erie today for the annual Erie March for Life, a decades\u2011old event organizers say is focused on keeping their message visible in the community.<\/p>\n
Marchers moved through downtown Erie Saturday morning for the 1.1\u2011mile walk. Organizers say the goal is consistency, maintaining the event nearly five decades after it began.<\/p>\n
Tim, one of the event organizers, says while people may disagree on the issue, participants believe their message is important.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost people understand that abortion is problematic. Some people come down on one side or the other, but we think our arguments are reasonable and very necessary,\u201d Tim said.<\/p>\n
The march wound through several downtown blocks before looping back to Perry Square for a closing program. The program included a prayer service, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the national anthem.<\/p>\n
Participants say being out in public is a way to ensure their message is seen and heard beyond just the march itself. Stephanie Logue reported.<\/p>\n
One marcher, Abigail, says she believes it\u2019s especially important for young women to be involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbortion is murder just on the surface level, and I, as a young woman, think it\u2019s very important for young women to show that we want families and we need more people in this world,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds gathered in downtown Erie today for the annual Erie March for Life, a decades\u2011old event organizers say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10483,6437,136,138,137,81425,75819],"class_list":["post-183207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-abortion","tag-demonstration","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-march-for-life","tag-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}