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There are no official crowd estimates, but photos and video feeds of the march led many to estimate the number of pro-lifers in the hundreds of thousands.

“Life is winning through the steady advance of science, that illuminates when life begins more and more every day”.

Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life, suggested many voters chose Mr Trump mainly because he had pledged to appoint a Supreme Court justice who shared their views on abortion, even if they disagreed with him on other issues. Though aware of the political implications of participating in the March for Life, Giles said her focus is more on helping women than on changing abortion laws.”I don’t think abortion is good for women”, she said.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the Congress of Tomorrow Republican Member Retreat on January 26, 2017 in Philadelphia. “His vision, his energy, his optimism are boundless, and I know he will make America great again”.

But few doubted Mike Pence’s commitment to the pro-life cause when he became the first sitting vice president to address the gathering in person.

“I like to say over there at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., we are in the promise keeping business”, Pence said.

Pence also touted Trump’s signing an executive order this week that institutes the controversial “global gag rule”, a Reagan-era policy that prevents foreign organizations that receive U.S. money from talking to women about abortion. Pence has been staunchly abortion his entire career. “Let your gentleness be evident to all”.

Let this movement be known for love. “That’s the message we hope they take away from this”.

“We are just trying to stand up for the orphans, and we are trying to stand up for the unborn, and we’re trying to stand up for life”.

Pence’s wife, Karen, introduced her husband.

Buses packed with people took off from a Lackawanna parking lot around 5 a.m. with about 400 people who will attend the march. By midday, the temperature in Washington was in the low 40s. Last year’s was held in a blizzard that dumped almost 2 feet of snow on the nation’s capital. The second-term representative from Utah acknowledged that it “would’ve been easier for them to have an abortion”, rather than keep her and struggle even more financially.

“I think people are still vigilant because they don’t want to go backward”, Montgomery said. And one of President Donald Trump’s top advisers, Kellyanne Conway also spoke.

Smith, first elected in 1980 and longtime leader of the House Pro-Life Caucus, said the effort in Congress has its most effective, articulate and compassionate backers ever.

“Your courage, your conviction and your faith are impressive and consequential”, she told the crowd.

“This was a ideal response occasion to support and be a part of it and in one sense one way to resist the new administration”, she said. Why are we here?

On a cold Friday morning in the nation’s capital, pro-life activists gathered at the grounds of the Washington Monument for the 44th annual March for Life.