March for Life: Fight to End Abortion Continues

On January 22, 1974, about 20,000 Americans took to the streets of Washington, D.C., to protest what had happened exactly one year earlier in Roe v. Wade. The leaders who planned the first March for Life imagined it as a one-time event, believing at the time that the Supreme Court would soon recognize its error and reverse course.

As it turns out, it took nearly half a century for the Court to correct the anti-constitutional travesty of Roe. Today marks the first March for Life in history to take place in a post-Roe America. Yet even as they celebrate that major victory — even with their ability to enact laws protecting unborn children from abortion restored — pro-life Americans still flock to D.C. to march. Why?

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Alexandra DeSanctis

Alexandra DeSanctis is a contributing writer at National Review.

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On January 22, 1974, about 20,000 Americans took to the streets of Washington, D.C., to protest what had happened exactly one year earlier in Roe v. Wade. The leaders who planned the first March for Life imagined it as a one-time event, believing at the time that the Supreme Court would soon recognize its error and reverse course.

As it turns out, it took nearly half a century for the Court to correct the anti-constitutional travesty of Roe. Today marks the first March for Life in history to take place in a post-Roe America. Yet even as they celebrate that major victory — even with their ability to enact laws protecting unborn children from abortion restored — pro-life Americans still flock to D.C. to march. Why?