Perkins says socialists, homosexual activists, anti-war protesters and "any other group that opposes President Bush" will be there on Sunday.  "And the media will portray them as pro-abortion, instead of what they really are -- anti-Bush," he adds.

Dr. Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America echoes Perkins, saying just days before the march, organizers are making excuses for a lower than project turnout.  She notes that abortion advocate Kate Michelman, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, claimed recently that the younger generation of women do not believe they are going to lose their right to choose.

"Michelman just doesn't understand today's young women," Crouse says.  "Opposition isn't apathy, Kate.  The majority of women today support life and the right to live."

That's a fact, says Perkins.  "Indeed, this generation is decidedly more pro-life," he states.  "[S]upport for abortion is dropping."

And Katie Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition, one of the many pro-life groups planning a counter-demonstration for Sunday, points out that in addition to anti-war and anti-Bush protesters, the IMF-World Bank protesters already in the nation's capital have also been extended an invitation.  That says volumes about the pro-abortion effort, Mahoney says.

"They say that it's a 'March for Women's Lives' and yet ... they're opening it up to other protests that have absolutely nothing to do with women's lives," she says.  "I think it's just a ploy to try to get a larger crowd."

Like Perkins and Crouse, Mahoney maintains that the abortion movement and the abortion industry are losing support.  "That's why they're having this march," she explains, "because ... among the youth and among the post-Roe v. Wade generation [are] men and women who realize abortion has not done anything good for our generation -- it's actually causing a lot of problems, emotionally and physically, in women."

Organizers had stated that 1,400 groups would take part in the march.  The most participants the march has had in the past has been between 2,000 and 5,000.  The route for Sunday's march was not made public until today (Friday) in an effort to keep pro-lifers away.

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Concerned Women for America (http://www.cwfa.org)
Christian Defense Coalition (http://www.christiandefensecoalition.net)

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