March for Life

March for Life Statement on President’s Joint Address

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March for Life Statement on President’s Joint Address

 

“With President Trump’s first 40 days behind him, we are happy to see him keeping his promises in the area of pro-life public policy, particularly by nominating a strict constructionist like Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court and by reinstating the Mexico City policy. As both the White House and Congress continue to work on solutions for health care reform, we urge President Trump and his Administration to work with Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to ensure that specific pro-life protections are included in the healthcare “replace” plan. We look forward to the continued commitment to pro-life priorities and urge Congress to pass the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act and the Pain Capable 5-month abortion ban, and for the President to sign both into law.”

-March for Life President Jeanne Mancini

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2017 March for Life Conference Videos

 

If you weren’t able to attend the 2017 March for Life Conference, which is held the day before the March for Life, you can watch the full videos from the keynote session and panel discussion below:

Keynote Session – Ryan Bomberger, the Radiance Foundation

Panel Discussion – The Pregnancy Care Movement
Moderated by Kathryn Jean Lopez, senior fellow, National Review Institute
Sylvia Slifko, ICU Mobile
Amy Ford, Founder, Embrace Grace
Callie Jett, Birthmom and Founder, Talk About Adoption
Dr. Jeff Pauls, Vitae Foundation

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40 Days for Life

 

40 Days for Life is a community-based campaign that draws attention to the evil of abortion through the use of a three-point program of prayer and fasting, peaceful vigils, and community outreach. Since 40 Days for Life began in 2007, 12,688 lives have been saved from abortion, 143 abortion works quit, and 83 abortion facilities closed.  Will you be part of this effort?

The campaign is a 40-day time frame in which people in local communities pledge to pray and fast for an end to abortion. They also commit to a 40-day prayer vigil outside an abortion center or Planned Parenthood facility (Planned Parenthood does not perform abortions at all of its locations, but it refers women to its abortion centers and is the largest abortion business in the United States). In many cases, those vigils are conducted 24 hours a day. Additionally, some form of community outreach accompanies the vigils.

Give the gift of life this month by participating in 40 Days for Life. Together, we will bring about a culture of life and see an end to abortion!

 

The spring campaign begins on March 1. You can learn more and find a local campaign HERE.  

WATCH the clip below from 40 Days for Life to learn more about the history of the movement.

 

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African American History Month

 

As African American History Month comes to a close, we consider the impact abortion has had upon the community.  In the United States of America, tragically, black Americans are disproportionately targeted for abortion. While comprising 13 percent of the total population*, African Americans account for a staggering 36 percent of the nation’s abortions.**

Thankfully, many courageous individuals and organizations are working to reverse these statistics. At the 2017 March for Life, Bishop Vincent Mathews, Jr., President of the International Missions Department of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), the nation’s largest African American denomination, spoke passionately about his work on adoption.

“Enough is enough. It’s time to rise up. It’s time to save lives!”

WATCH the full clip:

Since November 2015, COGIC has engaged in a “Family Life Campaign” challenging church members to take personal action in the fight for life. Mathews encourages members to adopt children from the foster care system and babies in danger of being aborted. “It’s about going home, rolling up your sleeves, and taking care of a child…” he shared.

Thabiti Anyabwile, pastor at Anacostia River Church in the Washington, D.C. area is also speaking up about the tragedy of abortion for the African American community.

“I am hopeful. If the conscience and compassion of the community is awakened; if African American churches are mobilized and understand this from and personal and historical perspective, it holds great promise for changing the minds of the country, changing the hearts of the country, to make abortion unthinkable.”

WATCH the full clip:

One of the most passionate speakers at the 2017 March for Life was Congresswoman Mia Love, who is the first female African American Republican elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.  She boldly declared, “Every time we kill a child, we, all of us suffer. We lose a little of ourselves and a whole lot of our future.”

 

Every child that is lost to abortion, every woman and family that is wounded by abortion, is a tragedy. Let us resolve to end the scourge of abortion on the African American community, and across our country.

 

 

*(US Census Bureau: https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-06.pdf)

**(Center for Disease Control and Prevention: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/ss/ss6512a1.htm).

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Jeanne Mancini on MSNBC

 

March for Life President Jeanne Mancini joined MSNBC today to discuss the status of pro-life priorities under the new Administration.

She joined MSNBC host Ali Velshi after President Trump’s speech at the CPAC Conference in Washington, D.C.

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During the segment, Jeanne noted the importance of pro-life values to millions of voters last fall and gratitude to President Trump for nominating Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

With the discussion of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” dominating Congress, she also pointed out how critical it is for there to be specific pro-life protections in the ACA replacement plan.