Pro-life demonstrators gather in Berlin and Cologne for annual March for Life

On the third weekend of September, pro-life groups will stage the March for Life in Berlin and Cologne, drawing thousands of attendees. In Berlin, demonstrators will assemble at Washingtonplatz near the main train station at 13:00, then proceed through the city centre; in Cologne they will meet at Neumarkt before marching onward. The rally is framed by Christian voices, with greetings from Roman-Catholic bishops, Protestant free-church representatives and the head of the Orthodox Bishops’ Conference, Heiner Wilmer, who emphasised the need to protect those without a voice.

Organisers point to persistently high abortion rates in Germany and the continued effort by the Greens and SPD to remove prenatal homicide from the criminal code. They also condemn recent developments such as the EU Commission’s decision to allow funding for women travelling abroad for abortions and the UK monarch’s signing of a law ending criminal penalties for late-term abortions, describing these moves as further erosion of the right to life.