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Thanks to a pro-choice president, the pro-life voice seems to have stayed more at the forefront in recent months. Even more so since the March 20 announcement that President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame.

Locally, the pro-life fight has made headlines too:

— Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted e-mailed the university March 25 to express his sadness about the decision

— Reports are out that a local Planned Parenthood allegedly concealed two statutory rape cases. We’ll have a reporter outside the Planned Parenthood at Seventh and Roma avenues Sunday morning (9-10 a.m.) covering a peaceful protest by Arizona Right to Life in response to the allegations. Apparently, Sunday morning is when clinics perform the most abortions on the assumption that most protesters will be at Mass.

While it likely didn’t make major headlines, parishioners at Our Lady of the Lake in Lake Havasu City already held a peaceful protest for the cessation of abortion and the preservation of life in the form of a rosary. The parish’s Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Daughters of the Americas sponsored the rosary March 22. 

More youth are also getting involved in the pro-life movement. Sixth through eighth graders at St. Daniel the Prophet School in Scottsdale prayed outside of Planned Parenthood in Tempe today, blocks from the Arizona State University campus.