Multiple pro-life groups rally Saturday in downtown Raleigh

A small number of counter protestors showed up, as well, but things remained peaceful.
Posted 1/17/2021, 4:56:55 AM

>>> AS A WEEK COMES TO A CLOSE,

THOSE WHO WERE UNABLE TO GET

THE VACCINE ARE FEELING

DISCOURAGED.

ONE COUPLE FEEL SHARES THEIR

EXPERIENCE TONIGHT AT 10:00

>>> THIS HAPPENS TODAY.

MULTIPLE PRO-LIFE GREW GATHERED

FOR A MARCH TO RIGHT LIFE-AND-

DEATH RALLY TODAY.

GOOD EVENING, THANK YOU FOR

JOINING US TONIGHT.

I AM JULIAN GRACE.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR MARK

ROBINSON MADE AN APPEARANCE

SPEAKING TO HUNDREDS IN

ATTENDANCE.

WRAL'S AARON THOMAS WAS THERE

WITH THAT RALLY TOOK PLACE

EARLIER TODAY.

AARON.

>>>

>> Reporter: LIEUTENANT

GOVERNOR DELIVERED A STRONG

MESSAGE TO HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE

AT THE STATE CAPITAL BUILDING

IN SUPPORT OF ANTIABORTION

LEGISLATION.

TONIGHT, WE ALSO SPOKE TO

PEOPLE IN FAVOR OF ABORTION WHO

SAID THAT THESE PRO-LIFE

SUPPORTERS WANT TO TAKE AWAY

THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN.

>> WE ALLOW THE MURDER OF THE

MOST INNOCENT HUMAN BEINGS ON

EARTH, AND WE DO IT WITH

IMPUNITY.

>> Reporter: LIEUTENANT

GOVERNOR MARK ROBINSON,

DELIVERING A FIERY SPEECH TO A

CROWD COVERED FOR AN

ANTIABORTION RALLY IN DOWNTOWN

RALEIGH.

THE NEWLY ELECTED OFFICIAL,

SHARING HIS COMMITMENT TO STAND

UP FOR UNBORN LIVES.

>> IF WE DO NOT PURGE ABORTION

FROM OUR SHORES FOR THE CAUSE

OF LIFE THE SAME WAY WE PURGE

SLAVERY FOR THE CAUSE OF

LIBERTY, THIS NATION WILL NOT

CONTINUE TO STAND.

>> Reporter: DEMONSTRATOR

LAUREN MARLOW SAYS SHE IS

HOPEFULLY CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY

OF THE SUPREME COURT WILL

STRIKE DOWN THE LANDMARK ROE V

WADE COURT CASE THAT MAKES

ABORTION LEGAL IN THE UNITED

STATES.

>> ONE ROE V WADE IS

OVERTURNED, THAT IS NOT THE END

OF THINGS.

WE ARE NOT SAY ABORTION IS

OVER, NEVER MIND.

>> I DON'T SEE IT BEING

DISMANTLED IN THE FUTURE.

>>

>> Reporter: -- SAYS DESPITE

ATTACKS, WOMEN HAVE THE

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT FOR

ABORTION.

>> THIS IS NOT ABOUT

INSTITUTING SOMETHING TO SAVE

AMERICA.

THIS IS ABOUT TAKING AWAY

RIGHTS.

THIS IS ABOUT DOMESTIC

TERRORISM, THREATENING SOME

PEOPLE, MEANING WOMEN.

>> Reporter: THOSE WHO JOINED

THE MARCH FOR LIFE SAY THEIR

FIGHT IS FAR FROM OVER.

>> THEY WANT US TO QUIT.

THEY WANT US TO BE SILENT.

I WILL NOT.

>> Reporter: DEMONSTRATIONS DID

REMAIN PEACEFUL, DESPITE THE

POSSIBILITY OF VIOLENCE FROM

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