Speaker at Eunice’s Right to Life March said volunteers become advocates for the unborn by creating dialogue with pro-choice advocates that balances truth and love, which helps them change their minds.
Grace Fontenot, an intern for Justice For All, said the non-profit mission organization is focused on training people to make abortion unthinkable for millions “one person at a time.”
“We are the voice for the voice-less,” she said. “Our training and outreach are to those pro-choice and to change their hearts one heart at a time.”
Fontenot spoke Sunday at the Liberty Center after the annual march in opposition to abortion, which was legalized by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision on Jan. 22, 1973.
Fontenot, an intern with Justice For All since August 2016, is a Mamou native.
Justice For All, according to its website, “... is a non-profit educational organization which partners with local church communities to train followers of Christ to make abortion unthinkable. Justice For All aims to make abortion unthinkable through conversations with pro-choice advocates – conversations in which the contentious debate about abortion is transformed into a dialogue. For Justice For All staff and volunteers, the goal of any conversation is to balance love and truth in such a way that minds are changed, lives are saved, and healing from past failures can begin to be embraced.”
Assisting Fontenot with different dialogues about pro-life and pro-choice issues was her brother, Ryan Fontenot. They presented different scenarios on how to reach pro-choice people with pro-life facts and conversations.
Deacon David Guillory of St. Thomas More Catholic Church welcomed all attendees at the Liberty and gave two reasons why each year Eunice recognizes March for Life.
First is to observe the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death, he said, Secondly, March for Life is to protest Roe v Wade, he said.
At the conclusion of the event, Monsignor Robert Romero and Deacon Gary Gaudin of St. Anthony Catholic Church lifted up the nation, country, and unborn lives in prayer.
Sharon Fontenot, one of the organizers of Eunice’s annual Right To Life March, gave recognition to Gail Bellow, who she credited as founder of the Right To Life March in Eunice.
