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After a week of rain and gloomy weather, the clouds parted and a beautiful day greeted the hundred or so people who participated in the landmark 40th annual Bike & Hike Festival for Life on Saturday, May 4.

The fourth annual National Day of Prayer and Protest against Planned Parenthood was a peaceful candlelight vigil that exposed the need to defund the nation’s largest abortion provider.

During April, Abortion Recovery Awareness Month, Grand Rapids Right to Life placed two digital billboards around the city and one vinyl billboard on Alpine Avenue.

Father John Linden, Vocations Director for the Diocese of Lansing, spoke at the Clergy for Life Luncheon at Cathedral Square on Tuesday, April 2.

Thomas Lawrence, prolife ambassador, gave two workshops on Tuesday, March 19. “The Art of Prolife Persuasion” was a hit with Grand Rapids Right to Life church representatives.

Anna Henke, a senior at Plymouth Christian High School, was honored with the 2019 Grand Rapids Right to Life Prolife Youth Award. Henke won a $150 scholarship and was nominated for Right to Life of Michigan’s $500 award.

March was a busy time as Grand Rapids Right to Life hosted booths at three expos in two weeks: Women’s Expo, Church Ministries Conference, and Diocesan Women’s Conference.

Despite only one student competing in the 30th annual High School Oratory Contest sponsored by Grand Rapids Right to Life, Emma DeNooy gave an inspiring speech that included humor, statistics, and a moving personal story.

Despite the weather forecast, more than 600 people still boarded 11 buses, hosted by Grand Rapids Right to Life, to travel from Michigan to Washington, DC, for the 46th annual March for Life.

The Memorial Service for the Unborn on Sunday, January 13, honored and mourned the 59,000,000 children killed since 1973, when abortion was legalized in all 50 states.