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October 3, 2012

Life Chain rally scheduled Sunday

Chris Cooper Woodward News

Woodward, Okla. — Pro-life supporters will gather along Woodward this Sunday, Oct. 7 for the "Life Chain" rally.

At 2 p.m. Sunday, abortion protesters will line sidewalks along Oklahoma Avenue, holding signs with messages such as "Life-the first Inalienable Right," "Abortion Hurts Women," and "Adoption - the Loving Option."

"We get together to take a silent stand against abortion," said Judy Brown, local coordinator of the Life Chain event. "We stand silent in prayer and hold signs. Screaming and yelling or getting radical serves no purpose."

The purpose of the hour-long silent protest and prayer session is to make "a visual statement of solidarity by the Christian community that abortion kills children and that the Church supports the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception," according to the Life Chain Network website lifechain.net.

Brown said that is why the protest is "against all forms of abortion."

"God has a way of taking care of all things. He's the only one who gets to make a stand when it comes to taking some one's life," she said.

The Woodward rally will be only be a small part of the rallies that take place as a part of the Life Chain event across the nation.

The first Life Chain gathering took place in 1987 and has continued annually on the first Sunday of October, according to lifechain.net and another Life Chain website nationallifechain.org.

Those interested in joining the Woodward Life Chain event can contact Judy Brown at 334-8800.

Several local churches are planning to participate in Life Chain Sunday, including  St. Peter Catholic Church, Crown Heights Baptist Church, and First Baptist Church.

In addition some members from the Assembly of God, Woodward Church of Christ, and Faith United Methodist Church are also expected to attend.

Brown said the event is open to anyone who wants to come.

"They can belong to any church, we don't discriminate," she said.

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