“There is no compromise on human life!” Pope Francis said in a message sent to organizers ahead of the march.
He thanked participants for their “commitment and public witness in defense of human life from conception to natural death,” and urged them to “go forward with courage despite every adversity.”
“The stakes, namely the absolute dignity of human life, the gift of God the Creator, are too high to be the object of compromise or mediation,” Francis wrote.
The pope also invited families to bear witness to “the beauty of life and of the family that welcomes it,” in order to build “a society that rejects the culture of waste at every stage of existence: from the most fragile unborn child to the suffering elderly, passing through the victims of trafficking, slavery and every war.”
