March for Life brings thousands to DC despite frigid weather

"I will not stop coming to these until there are no more babies being killed by abortion." 

That is what Georgette Forney, President of Anglicans for Life, said in DC when asked why she was at the annual March for Life despite the cold and Roe v Wade being overturned.  

"As long as one baby is being dismembered in the womb, and I know what that woman is going through because I had an abortion when I was 16—to have to recognize that my child was dismembered because I didn't know what an abortion was—I will not stop coming to these until there are no more babies being killed by abortion," she told The Post Millennial. 

Washington, DC was hit with snow for the second time this week with two major storms. Many schools and federal office buildings were closed several days out of the week, with the day of the march seeing several inches of snow. Thousands, as far as the eye could see, were present for the rally and the march that followed afterwards. 

Others, like Forney, did not let the snow and cold weather stop them from making their way across the country to the march.  

When an 80-year-old woman named Pam from Indiana made her way to the march using the Metro and was asked why she would come after Roe v Wade was overturned on the cold day, she replied, "Well, it's been overturned but it's not been overturned." 

She saw going to the March for Life as a way to give back to her children and grandchildren.  

A teacher from Kellenberg Memorial High School, a Catholic school in New York, felt that he and his students needed to make the trip down to DC.  

The school had brought down 44 juniors to the city and visited the Holocaust Museum the day before. Despite the Roe v. Wade decision, he felt that "especially in New York State, it's such an important issue even today because it became a state issue," the teacher said. "We are supporting for life in our state and also wanted to come and join so many other people who are supporting this wonderful cause." 

Although there were many in the crowds that were considered to hold more right-leaning political views, there were also some that were self-described pro-life Democrats and people who were LGBT. 

Anastasia Rogers of the "Rainbow Pro Life Alliance" supported the March for Life and wanted to change the narrative around who could be pro-life. 

When asked about how it was atypical for a LGBT group to be supporting the March, Rogers said, "We really want to change that narrative. We want to say that everybody can be pro-life. It doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter what your sex, your gender, your religion, what your race [is]. All of that, it does not matter. What matters is that babies are dying." 

"Every single person needs to stand up for these children regardless of who you are. The LGBT

A pro-life Democrat holds pro-life signs at the March for Life. Jan 2024

Another left-leaning March for life attendee held up a sign that said, "LGBT+, Democrat, Pro-Life." 

The March for Life started the year after the passing of Roe v Wade in January 1974. While the federal law has been abolished, many people from states where it is still permitted as well as from states with restrictions attended the event.