March for Life Marks 51st Anniversary in January: Here’s What to Expect This Year
The 51st annual March for Life will kick off in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19 under the theme “With Every Woman, For Every Child.”
The March for Life, which calls itself the world’s “largest annual human rights demonstration,” takes place every year in January to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide.
More than 60 million unborn children have been killed since the court’s ruling in Roe, which was finally overturned in June 2022 with the Supreme Court’s decision on the Mississippi abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
“The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each state from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” the majority opinion in the case said.
The abortion landscape in the United States has dramatically changed since then and seems to be shifting almost by the day. As many states passed legislation to protect life, others have approved measures to fatally endanger the unborn.
At the announcement of the March’s theme in November, March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said that “we hold that choosing life is empowering and that love saves lives.”
She said there is a “false narrative around abortion” that suggests the killing act is “empowering and necessary.” She added that this “fear-based messaging tries to convince women who are facing unexpected pregnancies that they’re alone, that they’re incapable, that they are ill-equipped to handle motherhood.”
A spokesperson for the March for Life told CNA Tuesday that “while there is no way of knowing ahead of time exactly how many will come, every year we expect tens of thousands to join us.”
