Walkers will have the chance to support the Center for Pregnancy Choices and choosing life during the annual Walk for Life hosted in downtown Vicksburg.

The annual event will take place Saturday, April 14, at 9 a.m. and is a fundraiser for the pregnancy center and a day of awareness for women and their choices other than abortion.

“It is a community event that reminds our community that abortion is till taking the lives of children in our community on a weekly basis,” CPC executive director Priscilla Black said. “We are an organization that has set itself up to make sure women aren’t choosing abortion because they don’t know they have support.”

The walk will start at the CPC, 1401 Adams St., and follow a mile long route ending back at the center. Black said each year the event raises about $7,000 for the center and enables them to educate and support pregnant women.

“The registration goes to support our funding, but the best thing that happens is certain community members use the Walk for Life to raise sponsorships for themselves so rather than it taking staff time to raise money, community members take time and ask their network,” Black said.

CPC provides free medical services to expectant mothers and education about motherhood and options other than abortion as well as financial and material support for expectant mothers in need.

“What we do is make sure abortion is never a women’s only choice and we try to reposition it on her list as her last choice,” Black said. “And where a life-confirming choice is her first choice, whether that is parenting herself or caring to term and making an adoption plan.”

Individual registration for the event is $25 and includes one t-shirt. Family registration is $50 and includes up to four t-shirts. T-shirt supplies are limited, so organizers recommend registering online at www.cpcvicksburg.org/walk-for-life/2018.

Black said they are also asking people who would like to support the center, but can’t attend the day of the walk to go ahead and register as every dollar helps.

“Those registration fees may seem small to them, but they are huge to our organization,” she said.