Thousands gathered in Times Square on Saturday to participate in Focus on the Family’s “Alive From New York” rally, a pro-life event staged as a reaction to New York’s recent abortion controversies.

Therally came as the concluding event to the 12-week “See Life Clearly” campaignthat Focus on the Family had launched. Using screens like those Times Square isbest known for, a 4D ultrasound was projected live onto a big screen during therally, and other pictures of unborn children were shown as well.

Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, explained the event’s mission to Fox News:

Our hope is that people walking into Times Square on Saturday will look up to the screens and lift-up in prayer every abortion-minded woman…They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, the picture of a baby is actually of inestimable worth. It’s a snapshot of the future and a million possibilities yet to come.

Pro-lifers,tourists, and everyday New Yorkers weren’t the only ones drawn to the squarethat day. Abortion supporters also turned out in order to protest the event.

“NewYork continues to be a pro-choice city,” New York City Comptroller ScottStringer stated to PIX11. “While we recognize people will come to disrupt a woman’sright to abortion, we are fighting back every single day.”

Thestories of post-abortive mothers turned out to be louder than the voices of theprotesters. Christina Bennett of the Family Institute of Connecticut told the story of how her own mother chose life:

She was in the hospital, with her gown on. She had already paid for her abortion…A janitor said ‘Do you want to have this baby?’ And she said yes.

Anotherpost-abortive mother turned pro-life supporter, Cindy Fiore, told PIX11 about how her life changed afteraborting three babies:

Planned Parenthood told me when I wake up, my life will be like it was the day before…My life has never been the same. I have been grieving for those babies for the past 40 years.

New York has been a center for the fight over abortion ever since Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a late-term abortion bill into law earlier this year. While Gov. Cuomo celebrated the “historic” signing, unborn children lost their last protection against abortion in the state.

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