WASHINGTON, DC (AgapePress) - Yesterday's pro-abortion
march around the U.S. Capitol, sponsored by the
National Organization for Women, drew a crowd of
nearly 7,000 college students. It also drew about 100
pro-lifers who lined the parade route, displaying
signs and pictures of aborted babies.

Sunday's NOW rally was called an "Emergency Action for
Women's Lives." According to observers, more than 90%
of the pro-abortion demonstrators were white male and
female students from Washington-area colleges. They
included homosexual and lesbian activists, nude women,
transvestites, and several pro-abortion religious
groups.

Those marchers responded to the small group of
pro-life "counter-demonstrators" with hateful
chanting, vulgar gestures, and anti-religious slogans
-- prompting one pro-lifer to say the emergency march
indicates pro-abortion advocates are "running scared."

One of the counter-demonstrators was Eric Whittington
of Rock for Life, a youth-oriented pro-life group.
"All of the pro-abort leaders have been recruiting at
local colleges for the past four months," he said.
"One good thing, though -- this is all that they could
get [to march]."

Brandi Swindell is with Rock for Life in Idaho. "When
I heard that there was going to the National
Organization for Women march, I knew I had to come out
here," Swindell said. "It's just heart-breaking to see
all of these women believing the lie that in order to
fight for equal rights or women's rights, you have to
believe in the right to kill a pre-born child."

Swindell commented on the demeanor of the marchers,
saying they "are very aggressive and very angry.
They're pointing, they're cursing ... just very, very
angry and very harsh, and it's very heart-breaking
because you see a lot of women [who] are so angry and
so outraged, and they're believing a lie that's
telling them ... that if you don't have the right to
kill another person -- your baby -- then you should be
angry."

Another pro-life demonstrator was Katie Mahoney of the
Christian Defense Coalition. "I think that their
[pro-abortion marchers] showing is rather pathetic,"
she says, "but they are really trying to get young
women to be sucked into the idea that pro-abortion is
women's rights, when in fact they do nothing to really
help a woman have a choice."

"I am holding a sign that has the list of hundreds of
women who have ... been killed by legal abortion,"
Mahoney said, "and I try to point that out to them and
they just ... give me an obscene gesture or turn away.
They don't really want to see the truth."

"The signs that we're showing [are] very disturbing to
them [the pro-abortion marchers], so they just chant
and scream."

Police were able to prevent any physical incidents
from occurring between the groups representing the two
sides of the abortion debate.