Thousands protest against abortion in Olympia

This post is from Seattle Times reporter Joanna Nolasco in Olympia.

Thousands demonstrators to Capitol today marched carrying roses, crosses and signage, annual rally against abortion in the State of Washington.

In its 33rd year the March for life rally is planned to coincide with the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States.

"World we go tomorrow to go to a pre-Roe v. Wade, but what we can do is start taking it back," Noreen McEntee Hobson, President who Washington State March for life, said to the crowd, which filled the steps of the Legislative building.

Fourteen anti-abortion lawmakers spoke at the rally, with three announced that you plan to delete anti-abortion legislation this session.

Rep. Matt Shea, R-Spokane Valley, seeks a bill that would require parental notification before an abortion procedure for minors under 18 signatories.
Rep. John Ahern, R Spokane, plans a Bill file which would define in State law, the life at conception begins.
Senator Val Stevens, R-Arlington, plans to propose a bill that would distract public funding for abortion services to other health services.

"As a legislator, I have always kept, when we receive the issue life wrong, wrong, having any other question" Rep.-Shea said at the rally. " ... Let that be this generation, the generation, stop abortion in Washington State.

From the March for life crowd stand over 10 supporters of abortion rights at the stairs of the Temple of Justice, sporting colourful characters such as "Your laws my body keep off."

The most high school aged group there are for "the importance of women's physical control of your body and your life," said Phoebe Blanding, 17, Olympia, who protested at the March for life rally since she was 11.

"We think it's really important that people... are able to choose what is right for you and that it is trusted to the decision for themselves, are" she said.

Adopting a referendum in 1970, Washington of one of four States was to legalize abortion in the early stages of pregnancy before Roe v. Wade decision.

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