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March for Life Won’t Just Oppose Abortion Next Year

(Daily Signal) — The new president of the March for Life announced that the theme for the 53rd annual march is “Life is a Gift.” On Jan. 23, tens of thousands are expected to gather on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to march to bring awareness to the hundreds of thousands of abortions that occur in the United States each year and to convince people of the sacredness of human life.  

The organization also announced that Grammy-nominated Christian rock band Sanctus Real will perform at a pre-march rally. Friends of Club 21 Choir, a group of young adults from Colorado with Down syndrome, will sing the national anthem. And Sarah Hurm, a mother who began to abort her child using the abortion pill, will give the featured testimony, sharing how she changed her mind and saved her baby with the abortion pill reversal procedure.

Jennie Bradley Lichter, the new president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, shared her vision for the 53rd March for Life at a news conference on Tuesday.

“Our goal,” Lichter shared, “is to invite everyone to the irrepressible joy of the March for Life; to be swept up into a movement that transcends politics and celebrates the joy, beauty, and goodness of life itself.”

She emphasized that the theme, Life is a Gift, speaks to the heart: “We want to draw people in by emphasizing what makes the march so powerful: joy, unity and radiant hope of tens of thousands of people coming together.”

For 53 years, pro-life supporters have come together for this event. Lichter believes the march continues to flourish after all these years because “it is rooted in this fundamental conviction that life is a gift. That is a core human truth, and that truth has immense staying power.”

Last year, JD Vance made his first public appearance at the march as the vice president. He joined the rally stage with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The organization shared that while President Donald Trump hasn’t yet made plans to attend this year, he voiced his support for life and the march last year via video. He pledged that in his second term he would “stand proudly for families and for life.”

The group expects to announce more speakers as it gets closer to January.

The March for Life Education and Defense Fund is the organization that powers the public demonstration every year. It operates year-round, organizing small state marches across the country and lobbying for pro-life policies.

(Originally published by Daily Signal)

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March for Life 2026: ‘Life Is a Gift’

(National Review) — The March for Life announced its theme for the January 23 demonstration: “Life Is a Gift.” Jennie Bradley Lichter, the new president of the March for Life, said in an announcement that this year’s theme “invites everyone . . . to be swept up into a movement that transcends politics and celebrates the joy, beauty and goodness of life itself by recommitting ourselves: to each other, to every woman facing a pregnancy and to every child.”

“Life is a gift” has long been a salient message when fighting against abortion, but it is similarly relevant in other fertility-related discourse, specifically that about in vitro fertilization. Reproductive technologies treat children as products rather than gifts, and, accordingly, children are subjected to versions of quality control and performance reviews — not only with respect to health but also aesthetic traits such as eye and hair color. Parents with big enough bank accounts can essentially test and grade their embryos with respect to hereditary disorders and physical traits like height, then choose whichever children are supposedly worthy of implantation and thus a chance at birth. Moreover, products for purchase can become the topic of heated debates about ownership: In divorce cases in which a married couple has frozen embryos, the children are treated as property to be owned rather than as human beings with rights. 

Putting aside fertility and pregnancy, “life is a gift” seems to have great resonance this season as a series of devastating events in our country has revealed a thriving culture of death. We saw the assassination of the Unitedhealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in 2024 because someone had a grievance with his line of work, and then we watched the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk onstage during a university appearance as he was responding to a question from the audience. Neither tragedy should have occurred, and each provided an opportunity for the divided nation to attempt catharsis by categorically condemning politically motivated violence, thereby restoring a bit of faith in the American project. But that didn’t happen, not really. Alleged assassin Luigi Mangione has become something of a heroic celebrity and accumulated more than $1 million in donations for legal support, while Kirk’s murder was widely celebrated in progressive forums such as Bluesky as a victory over “fascism.” These murders, along with the reactions to them, evoke a sense of despair, frustration, and fury that drains our confidence in ourselves and in our country. 

“Life is a gift” is a morally instructive theme when evaluating issues like abortion that treat a young child as a removable appendage, when navigating new technologies that devalue human life to a customizable commodity, and when pockets of the left rejoice in the brutal deaths of their perceived political enemies.

(Originally published by National Review)

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March for Life reveals 2026 theme in ‘critical moment’ for the pro-life cause

(OSV News) — The 2026 National March for Life theme is “Life is a Gift,” The March for Life Education and Defense Fund announced Sept. 30. 

Jennie Bradley Lichter, who became president of the March for Life earlier this year, noted the group chooses a theme each year for the annual pro-life march in Washington as “an opportunity to focus our attention on a key message or a timely element of the prolife mission.”

“We’re now at a critical moment in our country where the march for life and what we stand for is more important than ever,” Lichter told reporters at a launch event, adding, “This year, with this theme, we really want to speak to the heart.”

“It is really a moment for boldness,” she added.

In response to a question about whether they anticipate speakers from the White House or Congress, Lichter joked that “politicians never make commitments this far ahead of time.” But she said the event is “a go-to political stage,” citing a video message from President Donald Trump at the 2025 event and in-person remarks then from Vice President JD Vance, as well as messages from House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“Just knowing the baseline that all of these folks have been engaged in the past, we’re fully anticipating robust engagement this year, too,” she said.

Lichter also cited the recent murder of Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder, arguing its aftermath shows that “young people are looking for opportunities to come together, to hear the truth spoken boldly and persuasively, to recover the fundamental goodness of family life, and to help to hear people speak into that, to be affirmed in their desire for children as something that’s fundamentally good, and to hear people witnessing to what’s good and true and beautiful.”

“That’s my diagnosis of our moment,” she said. “The March for Life offers all of these.”

After his death, Kirk received praise from his allies in conservative politics for his willingness to debate and his advocacy for their cause. However, in discussions about his legacy, his critics also pointed to his controversial political rhetoric on subjects including race, persons experiencing same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria, and immigrants.

In response to a question about whether Kirk’s death, amid other recent instances of political violence — which also include assassination attempts against Trump, but also the murders of Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, and the firebombing of the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion, which is being investigated as the attempted murder of Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro — has changed the event’s security planning, Lichter emphasized the group is committed to working with law enforcement to ensure the security of speakers and attendees.

“Our baseline is security upon security upon security, to make the site secure,” Lichter stressed.

“We will be — as we’ve done with our state marches — taking a close look at our existing security plan and working really closely with our law enforcement partners to ensure that every base is covered,” she said. “But we have every confidence in the world, and the folks that we work with in law enforcement, who know this event very well, they’re committed to it. They’ve worked with us for many years, and I think that will continue.”

Organizers of the March for Life describe it as the nation’s largest annual human rights demonstration.

The 53rd annual National March for Life is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. A pre-rally concert will feature the Christian band Sanctus Real, Lichter said, and the Friends of Club 21 Choir, which is comprised of individuals with Down syndrome, will lead the national anthem at the event.

Georgetown University Right to Life will carry the banner at the start of the March.

Lichter said the group is also launching a “Marchers’ Stories Project” where they will seek video submissions from participants to document the group’s history.

(Originally published by OSV News)

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Thousands gather outside PA capitol for March for Life

(ABC 27 WTHM) — The Pennsylvania State Capitol saw one of its biggest crowds of the year on Monday. Monday marks the fifth annual Pennsylvania March for Life. Organizers say it draws six or seven thousand people every year.

Now, the March for Life is holding state-based marches across the country and continues to work to shift the way the culture views the unborn.

People prayed this morning for the fallen York County officers who were killed in the line of duty last week and for conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, who was gunned down while speaking at a university in Utah two weeks ago. Organizers say security was heightened for this year’s march.

“Charlie brought the message of being pro-life and having babies and getting married as a real positive to young people and you’re going to see at this march, hundreds and hundreds of young people that Charlie would be proud to see,” says President and CEO of the PA Family Institute, Michael Geer.

The event is advocating for SB 973 and HB 606 that would teach early human development in schools.

“I think there is a cultural shift right now among our young people who are really looking for meaning in life, a deeper meaning in life, and I think causes like this point them, direct them to the beauty of human life,” says York Catholic director of faculty and campus ministry Paul Miller.

The march opposes HB 26 that would repeal parts of the Abortion Control Act and replace it with new guidelines that treat abortion like healthcare.

“There are lawmakers who are doing other things to try to expand and create more abortions in our state and then there’s legislation to advance the cause of life, especially in coming to the support of women who are in a situation they don’t know what to do to get the kind of support they need to bring that baby into the world,” Geer says.

Rep. Kinkead (D) Allegheny County says the event marchers for birth more so than life.

“I think that the March for Life being here on the day that we move gun safety legislation is tragically ironic because none of those people came inside to support any gun safety measures,” Kinkead says. “I would love for all of those people to come and address gun violence and support things that actually help to save lives. We have growing food insecurity. We have people dying of preventable diseases.”

It took more than 75 buses to bring the marchers from across Pennsylvania to the State Capitol.

The National Right to Life estimates there have been more than 65 million abortions in the U.S. since 1973.

(Originally published by ABC 27 WTHM)

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Chemical Abortions, Sex Education: March for Life President Addresses Future of Pro-Life Movement

(The Daily Signal) — There has been a significant shift in the fight to protect the unborn since Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022 with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Now, the March for Life is holding state-based marches across the country and continues to work to shift the way the culture views the unborn.

Jennie Bradley Lichter, who became the new president of the March for Life in February, says there is a need to highlight the joy, optimism, and compassion within the pro-life movement.

Lichter joins “Problematic Women” to share her own pro-life journey, and discuss how the pro-life movement is effectively working to save the unborn even as chemical abortions have become the most used form of abortion in the U.S. Lichter also discusses her work during the first Trump administration and answers the question: Can women have it all?

And speaking of culture: Have you seen the new American Eagle ad featuring actress Sydney Sweeney and the radical Left’s response? We give our take on why a classic marketing technique has the far Left crying “racism” and “fascism.”

Plus, former Vice President Kamala Harris is coming out with a book on her “107 Days” of a presidential campaign. Should be a fun read. We react to the news. All this and more on this week’s edition of “Problematic Women.”

Enjoy the show!

(Originally published by The Daily Signal)