Mexico City.- The March for Life celebrated its fifteenth edition this Saturday in Mexico City with a walk from the Monument to the Revolution to the capital's Congress, in the center of the capital, where civil organizations called for protecting life from conception, reinforcing support for pregnant women and rejecting euthanasia.
The mobilization, called by Pasos por la Vida, took place under the slogan "Life is victory" and brought together more than 2,000 people from 20 cities in the country, according to the organizers, in a tour that concluded at the Legislative Palace of Donceles, headquarters of the Congress of Mexico City.
The march took place 19 years after the decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City and had among its central messages the demand for "respect for life" and "comprehensive protection for women".
During the mobilization, a banner was observed with the phrases "If you want peace, defend life", "Abortion is an open wound", "Pray for the end of abortion", "We are the voice of the unborn", among blue and white flags, the same colors that the demonstrators carried.
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Arguments of the anti-abortion march
Luisa Jimena Argueta, director of Pasos por la Vida, stated in her speech that the mobilization commemorates "15 years of perseverance" and "15 years of courage" of people who, she said, decided not to remain silent "in the face of indifference".
Argueta linked the defense of life to the violence crisis in Mexico and maintained that the country is going through a situation marked by more than 30,000 homicides a year, thousands of wounded families and communities "marked by fear".
"When a society gets used to violence, it stops reacting," said the leader, who asserted that violence also begins with the idea that someone "can be discarded."
The leader of the movement pointed out that, between 2007 and 2025, more than 320,000 abortions have been recorded in Mexico, based on available figures from different entities in the country, and maintained that abortion reflects "abandonment" and lack of support for women.
The requests
They also delivered a petition, with which they asked to protect life from conception to natural death, public policies for pregnant women in vulnerable situations, budget for maternity, adoption, mental health and palliative care, as well as transparency in abortion, violence and disappearance figures.
The document also included respect for the conscientious objection of medical personnel and rejected euthanasia, considering that "the answer to pain is not death," but care and closeness.
Meanwhile, Argueta also recalled that next year will mark 20 years of this policy that decriminalized abortion and pointed out that it coincides with the upcoming midterm elections, so he called on politicians not to forget that they will require their vote and should take a stand in favor of life.
Local deputy from Querétaro, Juliana Hernández, who was present at the event, also showed herself in favor of protecting "human life" and as a legislator called to send a message to the states of the country: "Life is defended."
Before the march, the Mexican Episcopate had called to participate in the mobilization and defended that the protection of the most vulnerable life is a sign of the "greatness" of a society; in a message that coincided with the demand of the organizers to accompany women, families, the sick and vulnerable people.
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