March for Life rally unfolds in Washington, with Vance to make first public appearance since inauguration

Thousands of pro-life activists are expected to descend connected Washington, D.C., connected Friday for the yearly March for Life, with organizers saying they look guardant to moving with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance to "dismantle the Biden Administration’s assertive and unpopular termination agenda." 

Vance is scheduled to talk astatine the lawsuit successful what volition beryllium his archetypal nationalist quality since being sworn into bureau earlier this week. It begins astatine noon section clip with a rally connected the Washington Monument grounds. 

"We are thrilled that Vice President Vance has chosen the National March for Life for his archetypal nationalist quality successful his caller relation -- a motion of his committedness to lasting up for life," March for Life President Jeanne Mancini and March for Life President-elect Jennie Bradley Lichter said successful a associated statement. 

"President Trump governed arsenic a pro-life president during his archetypal word which resulted successful a agelong database of accomplishments. We look guardant to moving with him and Vice President Vance arsenic they dismantle the Biden Administration’s assertive and unpopular termination agenda and erstwhile again enactment wins connected the committee for susceptible unborn children and their mothers," they added. 

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People participating successful the March for Life locomotion past the Supreme Court connected Jan. 19, 2024, successful Washington, D.C. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and American surfer Bethany Hamilton besides are scheduled to talk astatine the event. 

Trump – who volition beryllium visiting North Carolina connected Friday to survey harm from September’s Hurricane Helene – became the archetypal sitting president to code the March for Life rally successful 2020. He is expected to code today’s lawsuit done video, reports say. 

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Vance, left, takes oath arsenic his woman Usha Vance watches during the 60th Presidential Inauguration successful the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol successful Washington, connected Monday, Jan. 20. Vance is scheduled to talk astatine the March for Life connected Friday. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)

"Even with the fantastic blessing of Roe v. Wade being overturned, which allows much state astatine the authorities level to enact pro-life laws, the indispensable enactment to physique a civilization of beingness successful the United States of America is not finished," the March for Life’s organizers say. 

"The extremity of the nationalist March for Life is to not lone alteration laws astatine the authorities and national level, but to alteration the civilization to yet marque termination unthinkable," they add. 

The organizers are expecting astir 150,000 attendees astatine this year’s event. 

Anti-abortion activists march extracurricular the U.S. Supreme Court during the yearly March for Life successful Washington successful 2022. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

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The march is unfolding conscionable hours aft Trump pardoned pro-life activists convicted of blockading termination session entrances, according to the Associated Press.