Roe v. Wade vigil

The 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that gave women the right to have an abortion, brought nearly 35 students and members of the Bloomington community to Dunn Meadow.

The group gathered for a Vigil of Life to express their feelings of discontent with the decision.

“We must work in the face of abortion so that lives may be saved,” Father Atkins of the St. Paul Catholic Center said in an IDS article.

President of the IU Grand Old Cause chapter Chase Dowman said, in the article, that he believes life starts at conception.

“There is still a potential life there,” he said. “Whatever you call it, it is going to be a baby; it is going to be a mother or a father, and that is a life to me. If you look at it like that, how could you be for abortion?”