Thousands Protest Abortion at Democratic Convention But Media Ignores Them

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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
August 26, 2008

Denver, CO (LifeNews.com) -- Thousands of pro-life advocates are lining the streets of Denver protesting abortion at the Democratic convention, but you'd never know it from the national media coverage of the event. On Monday night, led by Alveda King and Archbishop Charles Chaput, the held a prayer vigil at a Planned Parenthood.

As many as 2,500 people lined the streets outside a local abortion center and called on Democratic Party leaders, and their pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama, to stop abortions.

Some participants carried rosaries or pro-life signs while teenagers scrawled pro-life messages on the sidewalks with chalk -- including those Democratic convention participants would use to head to the Pepsi Center. the rest