What Is Happening With the Right to Life Movement?

            Families, communities, and nations are stronger when they understand the value of the unborn child. Roe v. Wade was made the law of the land in January 1973, and millions of unborn babies have been killed since that time. However, something good also happened in the same month.

            January 2023 will mark the 50^th anniversary of the March for Life, established the same year that Roe v. Wade became the law and legalized abortion in all fifty states. Some people wondered if the March for Life would continue since Roe v Wade was overturned in May 2022. According to Gilliam Richards, March for Life President Jeanne Mancini announced that the march will take place in 2023, and its theme will focus on marching into a post-Roe America. 

“There’s a lot of confusion about the inherent dignity of the unborn child,” said Mancini at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., Thursday. “Our enemy is the lie that abortion is good for women,” Mancini added. This lie, she explained, is a key issue the pro-life movement will tackle following the overturn of Roe v. Wade….

The next steps for building a culture of life will be to continue marching boldly every January, she added. Pro-lifers will no longer march to the Supreme Court, but to the U.S Capitol and state capitols throughout the country….

The Dobbs ruling allowed states to make their own laws on abortion. For this reason, March for Life leaders insist there is still much work to do after Roe. At least 16 states and the District of Columbia are working to pass laws that would enshrine the “right” to abortion.

Other states, including Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Texas, have allowed their pre-Roe laws protecting unborn children to take effect following Dobbs.

Mancini said Thursday that pro-life Americans must celebrate the momentous overturn of Roe v. Wade. “I want to thank all of you who’ve marched over the years, all of you who have borne witness to the poorest of the poor, the most vulnerable, the unborn by marching on the Capitol, by marching to the Supreme Court,” she said.

Mancini added that she believes testimony of pro-life activists over the past 49 years moved the Supreme Court justices in their Dobbs ruling this June. “Your testimony marching in Washington, D.C., shutting down this city every year for the largest annual human rights demonstration worldwide has borne fruit,” she said. “It’s absolutely borne fruit in the overturn of Roe.”

“This is a moment where our culture has been changed,” said Mancini.

            Richards review on Mancini’s speech at The Heritage Foundation helps others to understand where the Right to Life organization stands now. It is good to know that the organization is not slowing down in their fight to preserve the life of unborn babies. The abortion folks are continuing their fight to kill unborn babies. Therefore, anyone who believes in the value of unborn lives must continue to save the unborn babies.