Poland’s March for Life and Family Doubles Numbers While Media Downplays Significance
Over 4000 particiants but TV station reported there were only 50, others report there were 800
By Hilary White
WARSAW, May 22, 2007

(LifeSiteNews.com) – Back-to-back rallies in Poland are highlighting the growing struggle in that country to defend the sanctity of human life and the natural family. Increasing assaults by the internationalist abortion and homosexual movement on the social order, defined in Poland for centuries by Catholic social teaching, prompted the League of Polish Families to initiate an annual March for Life and Family. Although there was no media advertising, the 2nd annual March doubled its numbers from 2000 in 2006 to over 4000 as more Poles become aware of the growing threat to their traditional way of life.

“This year's attendance shows that Polish people begin to realize the need to speak up for the family. Especially now, when Poland just failed to pass a right-to-life amendment to the Constitution, although polls showed that the majority of people want the law to protect human life from conception to natural death," said Lukasz Wrobel, one of the organizers of the event.

The march came the day after the first legal “Gay Pride” parade was allowed in the ancient capital under pressure from the European Union. Homosexual organizers had anticipated a crowd of 10,000 but the day saw only 4000 with supporters brought into the country to participate. the rest