Abortion foes kick off campaign in Kettering

40 Days for Life rally held outside region’s abortion clinic.

$About 100 \uFEFFanti-abortion supporters gathered Sunday near the Women's Med Center \uFEFFin Kettering to kick off the Dayton area's 40 Days for Life campaign. Bryan Kemper, from Stand True Ministries of Troy, was the speaker at the rally. Staff photo by Lisa Powell$

Lisa Powell About 100 \uFEFFanti-abortion supporters gathered Sunday near the Women's Med Center \uFEFFin Kettering to kick off the Dayton area's 40 Days for Life campaign. Bryan Kemper, from Stand True Ministries of Troy, was the speaker at the rally. Staff photo by Lisa Powell

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By Tom Beyerlein , Staff Writer Updated 11:42 PM Sunday, September 26, 2010

KETTERING — Katy Dalrymple was due to have her baby Friday. But a still very pregnant Dalrymple spent part of Sunday across the street from the region’s abortion clinic, praying for an end to what she considers a modern-day holocaust.

“They (unborn fetuses) can feel what the abortionist is doing,” she said. Her face reddened and she started to cry. “It’s like the Holocaust here in our country, of people who have no voice.”

Dalrymple of Oakwood, her husband and their three children were among about 100 people who attended the kickoff of fall 40 Days for Life campaign, which runs through Oct. 31. It’s a time of prayer, fasting and vigils for those opposing abortion in some 235 communities, organizers say. Cincinnati Archbishop Dennis Schnurr is to appear outside the clinic at 1 p.m. Oct. 24 for a “rosary rally.” A closing rally is set for 2 p.m. Oct. 31.

Sunday’s event was held across Vineyard Avenue from the Women’s Med Center of Dayton at 1401 E. Stroop Road. The clinic was closed Sunday.

The keynote speaker was Bryan Kemper of Troy, a self-described former punk rocker and drug addict who got clean and founded the anti-abortion Stand True Ministries. He told of visiting the remnants of the Nazi death camp Birkenau and imagining what he would do if he had lived in a house nearby.

“All of us live in that house,” Kemper said. “But for some reason, we think there’s a difference between the people who died in the Holocaust and the people who die inside the womb.”

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