Several hundred people took part in the recent March for Life, which took place in Maribor. Among them were many families with children and their grandparents. This is the second march of the year; the first one took place last week in Koper, and the next one will take place in Ljubljana.
Aleš Primc, leader of the “It is about the children” movement, also attended the event. “A great March for Life in Maribor. Slovenia has a future! There is no child who would say that a pregnant mother does not have a baby in her belly,” he commented on the event.
Every year, the March for Life participants want to draw attention to the fact that it is not right that every year in Slovenia, 4 thousand babies’ lives are forcibly ended in their wombs. This year’s rallies are being held under the slogan “Every unborn child is a human being,” Radio Ognjišče reports.
At the rally, participants could also listen to testimonies and music.
“The March for Life is the largest annual march to promote the joy of life, awareness of the dangers of abortion and compassion for the victims of abortion. It is a public demonstration of our commitment to the lives of the most vulnerable and helpless among us – the unborn children and their mothers and fathers in need,” explains the March for Life website.
Abortion in Slovenia
“The violent death of unborn children has been permitted in Slovenia since 1952. During this time, more than 700,000 unborn Slovenians have died as a result. Over the last 50 years, 20 percent to 40 percent of children conceived have not been lucky enough to survive the pregnancies. Although official statistics show that the number of abortions is decreasing, around 15 percent of all children conceived in recent years still lose their lives through abortion.
The apparent reduction in the number of deaths of unborn children in induced abortions is due to a change in the methodology for counting abortions and the fact that more and more abortions are carried out by pharmaceutical means, which are not captured by the statistics, as only clinically induced deaths of unborn children are included. The data on the decline in violent deaths of the unborn is, therefore, partly misleading. In reality, therefore, the number of deaths of unborn children in Slovenia is not falling, as official statistics show. Only the number of surgically performed abortions is falling.
But even if we take the official statistics alone, in practice, this means that in the average Slovenian classroom of high school graduates, there are seven empty desks where the pupils should have sat who have been aborted. And there are four chairs in the classrooms of this year’s first graders because, for every class of children, about four were not allowed to be born.
In 2019 alone, 66 busloads of children died violently in abortion, the lowest number in 50 years. Children who should not have been born in 2000 alone would have filled 169 buses,” the March for Life website says.
Sara Kovač
