WHILE many university students spend their holidays relaxing on a beach, 15 idealists including young people from the Nambucca Valley, spent a month walking from Brisbane to Melbourne, raising awareness of the anti-abortion cause.
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Athletic, urbane and charismatic, the youthful Crossroads Australia team presented a fresh and unfamiliar face to their movement in Australia. Their journey was a success, walking through Nambucca in the process on their way to Victoria.
An almost even split of men and women, the groups included club rugby players, the lead singer of an indie band, engineers, a theologian, multiple nursing students, an animal and environmental rights activist and an Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander woman.
“I want to help save lives,” Chris da Silva said.
“I believe that the life of the unborn is as precious as those born ... our fellow brothers and sisters.”
Given the long standing passion by some on both sides of the abortion debate, the walk prompted both goodwill and beration from some they met along the way.
The Crossroads team expressed dismay about the intimidatory tactics used by some anti-abortion groups.
“The pro-life movement is learning that it has to be authentically pro-love in how it does things and that is why Crossroads appeals so much to me. It’s simple. You wear a pro-life t-shirt and you walk,” a participant said.
