An image from the 2019 March for Life in Chicago. | March for Life Chicago Facebook
An image from the 2019 March for Life in Chicago. | March for Life Chicago Facebook
March for Life Chicago is going on tour this winter, starting in Madison, Wisconsin, on Jan. 2. The pro-life caravan will hit four additional Midwest cities before its final stop in Chicago on Jan. 23.
“In 2013 we started with 150 marchers and last year had over 9,000,” Kevin Grillot, executive director of weDignify, one of the sponsors of the tour, told Chicago City Wire. “In light of the pandemic, we thought this was the best way to keep the movement alive and growing.”
Other stops in the Moving the Movement tour include Omaha on Jan. 10; Fort Wayne, Indiana; on Jan. 16, Mundelein, Illinois; on Jan. 17, and Indianapolis on Jan. 22.
Prominent church and community leaders will speak at each stop, including Pat McCaskey, vice president of the Chicago Bears in Mundelein and Nebraska Lt. Gov. Mike Foley in Omaha. Those attending the rallies will remain in their cars and tune into a local radio frequency to listen to the speeches. Several of the tour stops will hold car processions through the cities following the rallies.
Those attending the rallies can also take part in a 130,000-diaper drive for local women’s centers.
“The 130,000 number represents the number of children we lose to abortion in the Midwest every year,” Grillot said.
In addition to weDignify, a pro-life movement on college campuses, sponsors of the tour include Illinois Right to Life, the Wisconsin Family Council, Secular Pro-Life and others.
This is the second March for Life Chicago rally since Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, signed the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) in June 2019, the nation’s most permissive abortion access law.
In a statement released after Pritzker signed the RHA into law, the Thomas More Society said that the "state’s extreme abortion law was tantamount to legalizing the death penalty, with no possibility of appeal, for viable unborn preemies.”
“The legacy of this governor, and any legislator who voted to pass this law, will be that of cruel dehumanization of unborn Illinoisans on a mass scale,” Peter Breen, the Thomas More Society's vice president and senior counsel, said in the statement.
For more information on the tour, or to volunteer, go to the marchforlifechicago.org
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