I can’t.
It’s in Spain. The AP report:
A huge crowd rallied in Madrid Saturday against a bill to ease restrictions on abortion — a vivid and emotional show of how the issue remains sensitive two decades after abortion was legalized in this traditionally Roman Catholic country.The crowd of at least tens of thousands of people waved banners, balloons and red-and-yellow Spanish flags as it marched down a major Madrid boulevard with the slogan “Every Life Matters.”
Civic groups predicted 1 million or more people would attend, and said they chartered some 600 buses to bring people in from other cities. Spanish police systematically refuse to give turnout estimates for protests.
The protest was called to denounce a bill sponsored by the Socialist government that would allow unrestricted abortion at up to 14 weeks of pregnancy and let girls aged 16 and 17 have abortions without parental consent.
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posted October 17, 2009 at 11:42 pm
You can’t imagine a pro-life demonstration like that in America? “Tens of thousands”?
Deacon,you need to go to DC sometime, on January 22nd. Tens of thousands marching for life. Little to no press coverage.
posted October 18, 2009 at 6:03 am
Some estimates in this report put the crowd at a million or more. I can’t imagine a crowd of that size here.
posted October 18, 2009 at 8:29 am
I guess it depends on who does the estimate and how it is done. I have seen crowds like that every year for the past nine in DC. On the one hand the media downplays it and on the other the estimates made are flawed (if not biased). For example, a large number of the crowd stays within Constitution Ave for the March but the estimates only count those in the Mall area in front of the stage for the Rally. I understand that they may want to do that in order not to include tourists or DC workers out for lunch but they miss counting about half the people who attend the March.
posted October 18, 2009 at 1:21 pm
You can see more impressive aerial photos here:
http://www.forumlibertas.com/frontend/forumlibertas/noticia.php?id_noticia=14976
I was yesterday in the demonstration with my wife and 3 children, and my parents, who came from Barcelona.
We held another demostration, smaller, in March. In March there were about 60.000 or 90.000, but yesterday we were at the very least 265.000 (the number of left-wing, pro-abortion newspaper El Pais). But in Spain the press always speaks of 1 million or 2 million in all mass demonstrations.
Lots of young people, testimonies, music, happiness…
On January 2008 the abortionists organized demonstrations in all the main cities of Spain: the biggest one, in Madrid: only 1.000 people.
It is sad, but because of the Spanish voting system, all these huge crowd has little to none effect in polititians and in politics… in other countries it would eman a change of many representatives in the Parliament.