1000’s of pro-life activists are anticipated to descend on Washington, D.C., on Friday for the annual March for Life, with organizers saying they look ahead to working with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance to “dismantle the Biden Administration’s aggressive and unpopular abortion agenda.”
Vance is scheduled to talk on the occasion in what can be his first public look since being sworn into workplace earlier this week. It begins at midday native time with a rally on the Washington Monument grounds.
“We are thrilled that Vice President Vance has chosen the National March for Life for his first public appearance in his new role — a sign of his commitment to standing up for life,” March for Life President Jeanne Mancini and March for Life President-elect Jennie Bradley Lichter stated in a joint assertion.
“President Trump governed as a pro-life president during his first term which resulted in a long list of accomplishments. We look forward to working with him and Vice President Vance as they dismantle the Biden Administration’s aggressive and unpopular abortion agenda and once again put wins on the board for vulnerable unborn children and their mothers,” they added.
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Folks collaborating within the March for Life stroll previous the Supreme Courtroom on Jan. 19, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., U.S. Senate Majority Chief John Thune, R-S.D., Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and American surfer Bethany Hamilton are also scheduled to talk on the occasion.
Trump – who can be visiting North Carolina on Friday to survey harm from September’s Hurricane Helene – turned the primary sitting president to handle the March for Life rally in 2020. He’s anticipated to handle at the moment’s occasion via video, studies say.
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Vance, left, takes oath as his spouse Usha Vance watches in the course of the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Monday, Jan. 20. Vance is scheduled to talk on the March for Life on Friday. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photograph by way of AP)
“Even with the wonderful blessing of Roe v. Wade being overturned, which allows more freedom at the state level to enact pro-life laws, the necessary work to build a culture of life in the United States of America is not finished,” the March for Life’s organizers say.
“The goal of the national March for Life is to not only change laws at the state and federal level, but to change the culture to ultimately make abortion unthinkable,” they add.
The organizers expect round 150,000 attendees at this yr’s occasion.
Anti-abortion activists march outdoors the U.S. Supreme Courtroom in the course of the annual March for Life in Washington in 2022. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
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The march is unfolding simply hours after Trump pardoned pro-life activists convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances, in accordance with the Related Press.
