Silent No More Pro-Life March, Mexico 2007

Below you will find the slide show of the pro-life march and demonstration conducted in front of the Legislative Assembly building in Mexico City, March 23, 2007. The captions are in Spanish. Three women from Miami and one from Spain who aborted, as well as Janet Morana ( c o-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign) and this writer, planned to give public testimony where it concerns the physical and emotional consequences of induced abortion. This was to be, the first Silent No More event in a Latin American country.

However, we were threatened with jail, if we spoke publicly in front of the legislative assembly building. We were told that according to a Mexican law, foreigners are not allowed to speak publicly about Mexican legislation. We decided to go ahead with the demonstration anyway, and as a sign of our protest at being deprived of our freedom of speech, all of us who were foreigners had a tape over our mouth. We held signs in Spanish, here's the translation of some of them: "Pregnant women need help not abortion"; "I choose life"; "I am wholeheartedly sorrowful that I aborted", etc. The next day all the Silent No More testimonies (including mine), were given during a press conference at the hotel where the international pro-life conference was being held; as well as during the conference itself, March 24th.