Abortion opponents hold first post-Roe March for Life in DC

Abortion opponents held the primary March for Life following the overturn of Roe v. Wade in Washington, D.C., on Friday, demonstrating in an effort to push Congress to enact further restrictions on the process. 

The theme of this yr’s march was “Subsequent Steps: Marching right into a Put up-Roe America.” Audio system on the march emphasised that they need to proceed to combat towards abortion entry regardless of a significant victory with the courtroom’s ruling final June in Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group that overturned Roe. 

NBC Information reported that Jeanne Mancini, the president of the March for Life Training and Protection Fund, mentioned this previous yr was the “most important victory” however that the “human rights abuse of abortion is much from over.” 

“We’ll proceed to march till the human rights abuse of abortion is a factor of the previous,” she mentioned. 

A couple of members of Congress who oppose abortion rights spoke on the rally. 

Home Majority Chief Steve Scalise (R-La.) praised the younger participants of the march, saying that they had been “giving us hope that the younger folks of America are right here to defend life.” 

“America shouldn’t be on an inventory of nations with barbaric abortion legal guidelines,” he mentioned. 

Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) said he was at the first March for Life rally in 1974, held one yr after Roe was determined, and added, “At present, we have a good time. Roe is gone.” 

He mentioned the rally “evokes us to do increasingly more in protection of life.” 

Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was not current on the rally but tweeted ahead of it that he welcomes those that got here to Washington, D.C., to have a good time the “proper to life.” 

He famous that the Home handed a invoice final week to require infants born alive after an tried abortion to obtain medical care. 

“You now have a Congress that’s standing up for all times,” he mentioned. 

The rally comes a day after the Supreme Court docket’s marshal, Gail Curley, mentioned she was not capable of finding the person chargeable for leaking the courtroom’s ruling in Dobbs early. Politico reported on a draft opinion a month earlier than the ultimate ruling was launched, inflicting the courtroom to launch an investigation into the leak. 

Investigators interviewed virtually 100 staff or personnel of the courtroom and all 9 justices however couldn’t discover conclusive proof of who was accountable. 

Vice President Harris will communicate at an occasion in Florida on Sunday in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the courtroom’s ruling in Roe. 

Nearly two dozen states have moved to virtually totally ban or severely prohibit entry to abortion following the courtroom’s Dobbs ruling. Anti-abortion laws and set off bans are stalled in courtroom in a couple of half dozen states.