84-year-old Nellie Gray is the 'mother of the March for Life'

Submitted on January 21, 2010

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By Dave Jolivet - Catholic News Service

FALL RIVER, Mass. -- Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley once said some consider Nellie J. Gray the "(Rev.) Martin Luther King Jr. of the pro-life civil rights movement."

"But to me," he added, "she's ... the Joan of Arc of the Gospel of Life."

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