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March for Life, Partnered with New Jersey Right to Life, Announces Speakers for the 2024 New Jersey March for Life

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March for Life, Partnered with New Jersey Right to Life, Announces Speakers for the 2024 New Jersey March for Life

Pro-Life Advocates to Address Marchers in Trenton on September 26, 2024

Trenton, NJ – Today, the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, partnered with New Jersey Right to Life, announced speakers for the first ever New Jersey March for Life taking place on Thursday, September 26th. Marchers will gather at the Trenton Statehouse to peacefully advocate for pro-life protections in state laws. Notable speakers for the pre-march rally include Melissa Ohden, Founder and CEO of The Abortion Survivors Network; Felicia Pricenor, Esq., Vice President of Government Affairs of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund; Marie Tasy, Executive Director of New Jersey Right to Life; Senator Anthony M. Bucco, Republican Leader New Jersey Senate, District 25; Assemblyman John DiMaio, Minority Leader New Jersey General Assembly, District 23; Dr. Monique Ruberu, OB/GYN, Board Member of 40 Days for Life and more.

“This year marks the first annual New Jersey March for Life. In this critical time, the March for Life, partnering with New Jersey Right to Life, will stand up for the support and protection of both expectant mothers and their unborn children. We will call upon all pro-life residents of New Jersey to join us in marching and rallying in Trenton- every voice matters, and we need you with us!” said Jeanne F. Mancini, President of March for Life Education and Defense Fund.

“NJ’s first ever March for Life promises to be the largest pro-life gathering ever held in New Jersey. We are excited and honored to partner with the March for Life to be a voice for the human life and dignity of both mother and child. Rather than being mutually exclusive of one another, we believe both lives have equal value, are inextricably intertwined and therefore should be protected by virtue of their humanity. It is for this reason that the NJ Pro-Life Movement is proud to be united in our commitment to love, support and walk with Moms in need so they can choose life for themselves and their babies” said Marie Tasy, President of New Jersey Right to Life.

The New Jersey March for Life will take place on Thursday, September 26th with a rally at the Trenton Statehouse at 11:00 am EDT followed by the march at 12:00 pm EDT.

 

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

  • Melissa Ohden, Founder and CEO of The Abortion Survivors Network
  • Sr. Deirdre (Dede) Byrne, the Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mar
  • Marie Tasy, Executive Director of New Jersey Right to Life
  • Senator Anthony M. Bucco, Republican Leader New Jersey Senate, District 25
  • Assemblyman John DiMaio, Minority Leader New Jersey General Assembly, District 23
  • Dr. Monique Ruberu, OB/GYN, Board Member of 40 Days for Life
  • Debbie Provencher, Executive Director of Lighthouse Pregnancy Resource Center
  • Nicole White, Post-abortive outreach worker, sidewalk counselor, volunteer for the Archdiocese of Newark Respect Life office and the Mercy House
  • His Excellency, Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney, Bishop of the Diocese of Paterson
  • Rev. Dr. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant National Director of the Life Education and Resource Network, Senior Pastor of The New Calvary Baptist Church in Montclair, NJ
  • Felicia Pricenor, Esq., Vice President of Government Affairs of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund
  • And more!

 

WHEN: 

  • 10:00 pm EST – Pre-Rally Concert
  • 11:00 pm EST – March for Life Rally begins
  • 12:00 pm EST – March for Life begins

 WHERE: 

  • The rally will be held at the Trenton Statehouse, 125 W. State St., Trenton, NJ 08608

Learn more at: https://marchforlife.org/newjersey/

Please email Alexandra Bedner (abedner@crcadvisors.com), Theresa Olohan (tolohan@crcadvisors.com) or Emma Parker (eparker@crcadvisors.com) if you plan to attend/cover.

March for life is a non-sectarian organization that promotes the beauty and dignity of every human life by working to end abortion – uniting, educating, and mobilizing pro-life people in the public square. It hosts the largest annual human rights demonstration in Washington, DC every January.

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NRO: Despite the Republican Party, the March for Life Goes On

(NATIONAL REVIEW) — Moving forward with hope and joy and justice.

The human-rights issue of our lives is abortion. Clearly not everyone sees it that way. It’s buried in euphemisms about women’s health. But follow the science. An unborn child dies.

The March for Life happens every January, marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in all three trimesters. Abortion has become so much more hot-button and angering and confusing than ever. And despite the headlines, increasingly hidden. Chemical abortion eliminates human encounter, unless CVS counts.

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The March for Life just announced a new president. Jennie Bradley Lichter is a wife and mother of three. Her father is a leading intellectual in the pro-life movement, Gerry Bradley at Notre Dame, As deputy general counsel at the Catholic University of America, she spearheaded a program to help mothers on campus — staff and students. Yes, if you’re pregnant, but also long after. Diapers. Food. Parking spaces close to where you need to be. The pro-life movement is not about politics as much as it is about basic resources. Pregnancy-care centers have been demonized in the post-Dobbs era, but they help with clothes and housing and basic skills.

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While the March for Life is about ending abortion, period, they have state marches as well. Lichter says the importance, besides education, is “to show that pro-life Americans are still here, we are still motivated, we will never, ever tire of witnessing together to the beauty and dignity and utter preciousness of human life.”

Outgoing president Jeanne Mancini speaks with great love for the suffering. “We live in a culture with many women and men who have chosen abortion and carry those wounds. Any messaging needs to both speak truth about the inherent dignity of the human person, the destructive nature of abortion to both mom and baby, and be steeped in mercy and hope.”

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The March continues. For women and children and families. For humanity.
To read the full story click here.

(Originally published in National Review)

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Introducing NEW March for Life President-Elect, Jennie Bradley Lichter

Jennie Bradley Lichter was chosen as President-elect of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund in September 2024.  She will assume the office of President of the organization on February 1, 2025.  As a longtime Marcher who began attending the National March as a college student in 2001, Jennie is humbled and honored by the opportunity to lead the March for Life.

Jennie has wide-ranging legal and policy experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including at the highest levels of the federal government. During the Trump Administration, Jennie served in the White House as a Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council (DPC) where she supervised rulemaking and policy efforts implicating a number of federal agencies, and led policy initiatives across the federal government to defend the dignity of life.

Prior to her White House service, Jennie worked on policy issues and federal judicial (including Supreme Court) confirmation efforts in the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice.  She previously served as in-house counsel for the Archdiocese of Washington. Early in her legal career, Jennie clerked for two federal appeals court judges and was an associate at the international law firm Jones Day.

Jennie is currently the Deputy General Counsel at The Catholic University of America and will remain in that role until she joins the March for Life as President-Elect in November 2024.  In addition to her legal work at Catholic University, Jennie also founded and directs The Guadalupe Project, the University’s campus-wide initiative to support and lift up pregnant and parenting students, staff, and faculty.  She is a Fellow at the Center for Religious Liberty in the University’s Columbus School of Law.

Jennie graduated from the University of Notre Dame and from Harvard Law School, and earned an M.Phil in Theology & Religious Studies from the University of Cambridge in the UK.  She and her husband, Brian, have three young children who love attending the March for Life.

 

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BREAKING: March for Life Welcomes New President-Elect, Jennie Bradley Lichter

Washington, DC, September 12, 2024 – Today, March for Life Education and Defense Fund is delighted to introduce the organization’s new president-elect Jennie Bradley Lichter. She was most recently Deputy General Counsel at The Catholic University of America and has a broad range of legal and policy experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including at the highest levels of the federal government.  Lichter is a married mother of three and a longtime Marcher. In addition to her legal and policy work, she founded an initiative at Catholic University to provide tangible resources and support to expectant mothers and their children.

“The March for Life is a storied organization that for 50 years has given the pro-life movement and our nation the great gift of a massive, peaceful, joy-filled annual witness to the dignity of unborn human life. When I first began attending the National March as a college student over 20 years ago, I never could have dreamed that someday I would have the honor of leading it,” said Jennie Bradley Lichter about her new role. “I am humbled by the Board’s confidence in me and thank them for the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of the great Jeanne Mancini, whom I deeply admire, and the indefatigable founder of the March for Life, Nellie Gray. I can’t wait to get to work alongside the terrific team at the March for Life, and committed pro-life Americans across the country, to do our part in building a nation where the unborn are protected, mothers are supported, and abortion is unthinkable.”

The new president-elect looks forward to putting her years of experience in law and policy in service to the organization and committed Marchers across the country, to all who are participating in the ongoing public conversation about the dignity of every human life, and, most of all, to mothers and their babies.

Jennie Bradley Lichter will succeed Jeanne Mancini who is only the second president of the organization founded and led by Nellie Gray in 1974 as a response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade the year before. Jeanne Mancini’s 12-year tenure has been marked by consistent and extraordinarily fruitful growth, including at the National March which has become the world’s largest annual human rights demonstration and the establishment of a rapidly expanding state march program already in 16 states. Major milestones under Jeanne Mancini’s leadership include hosting the first sitting Vice-President and President of the United States at the National March for Life in Washington, DC as well as the monumental Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Jeanne Mancini commented, “Leading the March for Life has been the honor and opportunity of a lifetime; one for which I will be forever grateful. There have been countless highlights during my time as President of March for Life, including the momentous overturn of Roe v. Wade. The heroes I have been able to work with along the way have made this all possible—from our amazing Board to our supporters to our wonderful staff to, last but definitely not least, the collective millions of Marchers I have walked with over the past 12 years. I’m convinced that building a culture of life through compassionate public witness to the inherent dignity of the unborn and their mothers is as critically important today as it was the tragic day abortion was first legalized in the United States – or at any time since. I am more than delighted to watch how the organization will continue to grow under Jennie Bradley Lichter’s leadership.”

March for Life Chairman of the Board Timothy Saccoccia added, “It is impossible to express properly the gratitude the Board of Directors has for Jeanne Mancini’s 12 years of leadership during some of the most historic moments for our movement. Her visionary leadership conceived of a state march program years before we heard of Dobbs, and her joyous demeanor has helped to change hearts and minds across America. I’m delighted that Jeanne will also remain with us on the Board of Directors. At the same time, it gives me great joy to welcome Jennie Bradley Lichter at this time of great potential for our movement. She will truly be a leader in the tradition of her amazing and dedicated predecessors at a time when the need to march in Washington and our state capitals has never been more important. I know marchers across the country will enjoy the opportunity in the years ahead to meet Jennie and march with her until abortion is unthinkable.”

Jennie Bradley Lichter will come on board in November as President-elect and will officially assume leadership of the organization on February 1, 2025. Jeanne Mancini will continue to serve on the Board of Directors for March for Life.

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March for Life is a non-sectarian, non-partisan organization that promotes the beauty and dignity of every human life by working to end abortion – uniting, educating, and mobilizing pro-life people in the public square. It hosts the world’s largest annual human rights demonstration in Washington, DC every January.

 

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March for Life announces ‘longtime marcher’ as new president

(EWTN) — The March for Life announced Thursday that longtime president Jeanne Mancini will pass the torch early next year to Jennie Bradley Lichter, a leading pro-life legal advocate and scholar.

“Leading the March for Life has been the honor and opportunity of a lifetime, one for which I will be forever grateful. There have been countless highlights during my time as president of March for Life, including the momentous overturn of Roe v. Wade,” said Mancini, who has led the pro-life organization for the past 12 years.

“I’m convinced that building a culture of life through compassionate public witness to the inherent dignity of the unborn and their mothers is as critically important today as it was the tragic day abortion was first legalized in the United States — or at any time since,” she said.

“I am more than delighted to watch how the organization will continue to grow under Jennie Bradley Lichter’s leadership.”

Catholic pro-life activist Nellie Gray founded the March for Life in Washington, D.C., in 1974 following the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

The organization, which now bills its march as the world’s largest annual human rights demonstration, celebrated its 51st anniversary with this year’s gathering, which took place in late January and attracted tens of thousands.

Mancini was only the second person to serve as president of the March for Life, after Gray herself, who died in 2012. Mancini’s tenure of a dozen years was marked by “consistent and extraordinarily fruitful growth,” the group says, which includes the establishment of a “rapidly expanding” state march program, already present in 16 states.

Other major milestones under Mancini’s leadership include hosting for the first time the sitting vice president and president of the United States at the national March in 2020 as well as the landmark 2022 Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which returned the power to legislate on abortion to the states.

(Originally published in EWTN)