Thousands of people participated this Sunday in Madrid in the march to defend the “born and unborn”under the motto Yes to lifeorganized by the Yes to Life Platform, in an event in which they proclaimed that “there are no people who have less value due to their health or ability.”
The march, which began at 12:00 p.m. on Serrano Street in Madrid to Paseo de Recoletos, brought together more than 35,000 peopleaccording to the organization.
The thousands of attendees at the march for life in Madrid keep a minute of silence for the victims of the culture of death while they listen live to the heartbeat of a baby pic.twitter.com/TvfLQfowYg
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The event has been presented by Marcel García and Leticia Salinero and they have pointed out that “life is a gift” and have asked politicians to “defend and care for” life. «Life is a gift with all its circumstances and in all its stages from its conception to its natural end. “We are here to vindicate the right to life of all people,” they said.
At the end of the march, a group of people read a manifesto in which have rejected “all laws and practices that threaten the life, dignity of people or human nature”. «The eugenic mentality and the abandonment of those who need more attention and care must be changed. “It is time to unmask the horrors, businesses and ideologies that support the culture of death,” he stated.
The presenters of the event have criticized that in Spain only 20 million euros are allocated to support pregnant women, while 40 million are allocated to finance abortion. «In Spain, more than two and a half million abortions have already occurred. Policies are leading society towards a negative generational change. Currently, fewer people are born than are dying,” they highlighted.
Attendees have carried signs with the messages ‘Thank you mom, for letting me be born’; ‘The embryo is a human being’; ‘Listen to the heartbeat, I tell you I’m alive‘; ‘The right to life for all without exception’; or ‘We young people say yes to life’. Some chants ‘Yes to life’ or ‘Long live life’ have also been shouted on several occasions.
The event has had testimonies from families who have someone close to them with an illness or disabilitylike the case of Paloma Zafrilla, who has told the case of her brother Carlitos, who suffers from 96% disability.
«Carlitos is 26 years old and he is like a six-month-old child. He doesn’t walk, he doesn’t talk, he doesn’t communicate. What he does do is smile and complain. There is no greater life than what is in my house, especially for my brother. “The union we have and the love he has given us,” he said.
In addition, a minute of silence has been observed in memory of “all those children who were not born, in memory of the victims of euthanasia, of those who died from rare diseases and of all the victims of the culture of death”, while at the same time the heartbeat of a 24-week fetus has been heard of a pregnant woman who has undergone an ultrasound on stage.