Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to pack the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to declare their commitment to the unborn at the 38th annual March for Life.
This year's march will be held Monday, Jan. 24. Nellie Gray, the March for Life's 85-year-old founder and organizer, is expecting 400,000 demonstrators to attend the event.
The march has occurred every January since 1974. It originated in October of 1973, among a group of citizens who were convinced that the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade – handed down on Jan. 22 of that year – was a grievous violation of both constitutional and moral principles.
That decision by the high court found that an implicit legal “right to privacy” prevented the states from outlawing abortion, although they had commonly done so throughout U.S. history. There have been, by many estimates, approximately 50 million abortions in the United States since the Roe decision.
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