Pro-life advocates in Virginia, responding to Gov. Ralph Northam’s comments defending infanticide, will hold a Day of Mourning to fast and pray in Richmond April 6. The event is being called a grassroots movement and is designed after a similar gathering in New York last month.
The New York observance followed the January passage of the state’s Reproductive Health Act, which removed most restrictions on abortion statewide. An estimated 4,000 people attended the Day of Mourning in Albany, with 40,000 more participating through live streaming, according to LifeSite News.
Participants at the Greater Richmond Convention Center are being asked to wear black as they call for the repentance of the sin of abortion.
“Have we already forgotten that Virginia Governor Northam advocated for executing already born full-term babies?” Elizabeth Johnston, the Activist Mommy, told the Christian Post.
“Have we already forgotten that New York Governor (Andrew) Cuomo and his friends at Planned Parenthood celebrated child murder by lighting up the World Trade Center pink? Is our commitment to our unborn neighbors so fickle that we have already allowed our righteous anger to subside,” she questioned?
As Christian Headlines previously reported, during a radio interview earlier this year with WTOP, Northam created a national firestorm over his comments supporting third-trimester…
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