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Statement on 2021 March for Life

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Statement on 2021 March for Life

The protection of all of those who participate in the annual March, as well as the many law enforcement personnel and others who work tirelessly each year to ensure a safe and peaceful event, is a top priority of the March for Life. In light of the fact that we are in the midst of a pandemic which may be peaking, and in view of the heightened pressures that law enforcement officers and others are currently facing in and around the Capitol, this year’s March for Life will look different.

The annual rally will take place virtually and we are asking all participants to stay home and to join the March virtually. We will invite a small group of pro-life leaders from across the country to march in Washington, DC this year. These leaders will represent pro-life Americans everywhere who, each in their own unique ways, work to make abortion unthinkable and build a culture where every human life is valued and protected.

We are profoundly grateful for the countless women, men, and families who sacrifice to come out in such great numbers each year as a witness for life – and we look forward to being together in person next year.  As for this year’s march, we look forward to being with you virtually.

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Looking Back on 2020 at the March for Life

2020 was a year that impacted all of us; we have learned and grown during these hard times. But even as we welcome in the new year with hope and look towards the 2021 March for Life on January 29th, we also cherish the positives and “silver linings” from this past year.

Join us below as we reflect upon our favorite moments and pro-life accomplishments in 2020.

THE 2020 MARCH FOR LIFE

On January 24, President Donald Trump made history by being the first-ever sitting President to make an in-person appearance at the March for Life! Vice President Mike Pence also made a virtual appearance from the Vatican.

In his remarks to marchers, President Trump declared, “Together, we will defend this truth all across our magnificent land. We will set free the dreams of our people. And with determined hope, we look forward to all of the blessings that will come from the beauty, talent, purpose, nobility, and grace of every American child.”

STATE MARCHES

We co-hosted the 2nd Virginia March for Life on February 13th, which drew pro-lifers from across Virginia to the state capital in Richmond, despite a rainy day.

Over the next couple of months, as we began the Covid shutdowns, March for Life and March for Life state partners unanimously agreed to postpone the remaining 2020 State Marches in light of the pandemic.

Since we could not march together in person, we shifted to virtual events with our state partners, hosting pro-life advocacy training webinars in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and California.

QUARANTINE CREATIVITY

In late Spring and early Summer, while students were learning in their virtual classrooms, and many workplaces shifted to an online environment due to COVID-19, we saw an opportunity to offer no-cost, pro-life educational content for families.

We partnered with pro-life activists, like Abby Johnson, and medical professionals, like Dr. Christina Francis M.D., to bring first-rate pro-life educational content online through Facebook Live and YouTube.

March for Life also partnered with pro-life movie producers to host “Pro-Life Movie Nights” on our Facebook platform, combining the powerful messaging of the entertainment industry with the truth about life. The March for Life live stream lecture series received a total of over 145,000 views, and the March for Life movie series received over 152,000 views.

TOGETHER STRONG: LIFE UNITES

In the early Fall, on September 10th, we announced the theme of the 2021 March for Life, “Together Strong: Life Unites,” by bringing together 30 of the most prominent pro-life voices for a virtual theme debut webinar.

While abortion divides in so many ways, LIFE is the ultimate unifier. The pro-life movement is a diverse, dedicated, and multi-talented community. When we all work together in defense of the unborn, we will see a culture of life and love welcomed in our nation and world.

If you were not able to join us, you can still watch the event here!

MAKING HEADLINES

Throughout the year, the March for Life represents your pro-life voice in the media, be it through publishing pro-life opinion editorials, being interviewed by print, radio, or television media outlets, or with our vast social media presence.

This year, the March for Life achieved 348 major media hits in 2020:

  • quoted in 300+ print stories
  • published 24+ opinion pieces
  • appeared in 15+ television interviews
  • participated in 30+ radio interviews

We are honored to represent the collective voice of hundreds of thousands of pro-life marchers, like you, in the media year-round.

BRINGING YOUR VOICE TO CAPITOL HILL

In December, we learned that for the second year in a row, The Hill Top Lobbyist 2020 named Vice President of Government Affairs of March for Life, Tom McClusky, as one of the top Grassroots Lobbyists on Capitol Hill.

Since joining the March for Life team in 2013, Tom McClusky has dedicated his efforts to bringing the collective, massive voice of the marchers to the Hill throughout the entire year. We are proud of Tom and so grateful to have him working for you!

HELPING SHAPE HISTORY

Throughout the year, March for Life Action, sister organization to March for Life, mobilized thousands of citizens to be powerful voices for life, particularly in the confirmation hearings of now Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

With an advocate audience of over 215,000 pro-life Americans who have contacted their lawmakers nearly as many times this year, March for Life activists created a lasting impact.

Every message sent represents a pro-life American exercising his or her civic responsibility and affecting real change on a local, state, and federal level. Through the March for Life Action network, pro-life citizens are provided an avenue to march for life year-round.

These are just the highlights!

To read more about the March for Life in 2020, check out our Annual Report! 

We are so proud of the pro-life advances made this year, which could only happen with your support. Thank you! We look forward to continuing to build a culture of life together in 2021!

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Rescinding the Mexico City Policy is Bad for America, Bad for the World

Inauguration Day and the weeks that follow should be a time for the new president to unite the country and build an agenda that crosses party lines. Unfortunately, it seems Joe Biden plans to take the opposite approach, having promised to immediately rescind the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy, better known as the Mexico City policy.

As millions of Americans are hurting because of the coronavirus, Biden appears hell-bent on canceling an extraordinarily effective and life-giving policy. President Ronald Reagan originally enacted the Mexico City policy to ensure unwilling American taxpayers didn’t fund overseas abortions. Every Republican president since Reagan has promoted the policy, and President Donald Trump expanded it, applying it not only to the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department but to other agencies distributing foreign health assistance, like the Department of Defense. This significant change means that billions of taxpayer dollars are protected from paying to promote and subsidize abortion internationally every year.

Unfortunately, Biden can eliminate this pro-life policy with a stroke of a pen. During the Democratic primary, his campaign promised, “Biden will use executive action on his first day in office to withdraw the Mexico City global gag rule.” Vice President Kamala Harris wants to go even further and pass legislation permanently repealing the Mexico City policy. This level of commitment to funding abortion everywhere is, frankly, ghoulish and should concern Americans regardless of political affiliation.

Even abortion supporters don’t think the government should be promoting and funding the practice abroad with the tax dollars of pro-life Americans. A bipartisan majority of Americans reject Biden and Harris’s radical approach to the exportation of abortion, as 75 percent oppose funding overseas abortions with taxpayer funds, including 61 percent who identify as pro-choice.

Despite the need to focus our dwindling resources on families here in our pandemic-battered economy, Biden wants to endanger unborn babies in countries that should self-determine their values.

It is a cruel act of political expedience to dangle abortion over the head of a needy world. Abortion isn’t health care. At-risk communities across the globe stand to benefit from the safety net and companionship that comes from having and raising children. Heaven forbid the United States endorse and fund a program that destroys lives and weakens communities, which is exactly what reversing the Mexico City policy will do.

Biden justifies repealing this popular and life-giving policy by claiming it hurts global public health, even though all the evidence shows the opposite.

A State Department review of the Trump policy shows that only eight of 1,340 primary grant awardees declined health care funds because of the abortion prohibition—proof the policy doesn’t curb critical health assistance in remote parts of the world. “In most cases in which a recipient or sub-recipient declined to agree to the terms of [the Mexico City policy], USAID and/or the prime partner successfully transitioned activities to ensure the continuity of global health assistance,” reads the report.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement the report is evidence the policy doesn’t inhibit the United States’ ability to provide much-needed health care and testing to those in third-world countries. “This review reaffirms that the United States can continue to meet its critical global health goals while protecting life abroad through its global health assistance programs,” he said. “The U.S. government is committed to protecting life, the unborn, and the dignity of the human person.”

A misguided Biden administration would foist a harmful package deal on other countries at the expense, and against the wishes, of American taxpayers. But the return and expansion of the Mexico City policy under the Trump administration was proof positive that it’s possible to defend the unborn and their mothers while also advancing health and well-being around the world.

(Originally published in Newsweek)

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March for Life Announces Speakers for the 48th Annual March for Life

“In a world marked by division, unrest, and fear, the pro-life movement brings together people from all walks of life, each with their own unique mission to promote the inherent dignity of the human person.”

~Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life~ 

Washington, D. C. – Today, the March for Life Education and Defense Fund announced the first wave of speakers for the 48th annual March for Life on January 29, 2021. Tim Tebow, a two-time national champion, first-round NFL draft pick and Heisman Trophy winner will give an address virtually at the Rally. Marchers will be addressed in person by retired NFL player Benjamin Watson and his wife Kirsten Watson who are authors, speakers, podcasters, movie producers, and parents of seven; Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family; and J.D. Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention will speak at the 2021 Rally. Elizabeth Eller, student body president at Christendom College, will be the student speaker this year. Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of the Archdiocese of Kansas City, KS as well as Cissie Graham Lynch, daughter of Franklin Graham and granddaughter of the late Rev. Billy Graham, will lead the opening and closing prayers. The 2021 March for Life will be led by students from Christendom College in Front Royal, VA who will carry the banner; and students from Immanuel Lutheran School in Alexandria, VA will carry the flags.

All of these speakers work in their own way towards a society that values and protects every human life. The theme for this year’s March for Life is Together Strong: Life Unites and highlights the critical role each person plays in building a culture of life.

“We are thrilled to welcome this remarkable group of speakers to the world’s largest annual human rights demonstration,” said Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life who will emcee the event. “These speakers will showcase that the strength of the pro-life movement is in its diversity. In a world marked by division, unrest, and fear, the pro-life movement brings together people from all walks of life, each with their own unique mission to promote the inherent dignity of the human person.”

March for Life Rally Friday, January 29, 2021 12:00pm – 1:00pm ET

Speakers include:

  • Jim Daly, author, broadcaster, president of Focus on the Family
  • Elizabeth Eller, student body president at Christendom College
  • D. Greear, pastor of The Summit Church, in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina and 62nd president of the Southern Baptist Convention
  • Cissie Graham Lynch, daughter of Franklin Graham and granddaughter of the late Rev. Billy Graham and currently serving as a senior advisor and ministry spokesperson for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse
  • Joseph F. Naumann, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kansas City, KS and Chair of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Pro-Life Committee
  • Tim Tebow, two-time national champion, first-round NFL draft pick and Heisman Trophy winner and currently pursuing a career in professional baseball as a member of the New York Mets organization. He is the author of three New York Times Best Selling books.
  • Benjamin and Kirsten Watson, authors, speakers, podcasters, movie producers, and parents of seven who are dedicated to the cause of family, justice and human dignity. Benjamin played 16 seasons in the NFL and won a Super Bowl with the New England Patriots.

Matthew West, the GMA Dove Award®-winning and GRAMMY Award®-nominated artist/songwriter, will be performing at this year’s Pre-Rally Concert from 11am-noon.

The 48th annual March for Life, the world’s largest annual human rights demonstration, will be held on January 29, 2021. The March for Life will continue share more information about the theme Together Strong: Life Unites and additional speakers leading up to the March for Life.

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Announcing Tim Tebow as the 2021 Rose Dinner Keynote Speaker!

We are thrilled to announce that Tim Tebow will be our 2021 Rose Dinner Keynote speaker!

The annual Rose Dinner, a pro-life gala we host on the evening of the March for Life, is going virtual this year. Please join us on Friday, January 29th at 7 p.m. for an intimate evening of inspiration filled with amazing speakers and pro-life messages.

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About our keynote speaker:

Tim Tebow is a two-time national champion, first-round NFL draft pick and Heisman Trophy winner. In addition, he serves as a college football analyst for ESPN. Prior to joining ESPN Tebow played three years in the NFL for the Denver Broncos and the New Your Jets. Currently, Tebow is pursuing a career in professional baseball as a member of the New York Mets organization.

Tebow is the author of three New York Times Best Selling books; Through My Eyes, which was named the #1 sports and religion book of 2011 and Shaken: “Discovering your True Identity in the Midst of Life’s Storms” which released in 2016 and won the 2017 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Book of the Year. Tebow released his third New York Times bestseller, This Is The Day, in September of 2018.

Tim Tebow grew up the son of missionaries and has returned to the Philippines several times throughout his life to spread God’s word and do the Lord’s work by serving the needy.

The Tim Tebow Foundation was established in 2012 with the goal to bring Faith, Hope, and Love to those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need. The foundation fulfills this mission every day by making dream come true for children with life-threatening illnesses, building Timmy’s Playrooms in children’s hospitals, providing life-changing surgeries to children of the Philippines through the Tebow CURE Hospital, sponsoring Night to Shine, a nationwide prom and worldwide movement for people with special needs, providing care for orphans in six countries and adoption aid grants for families who choose to adopt an international child with special needs.

Tim is married to Demi-Leigh Tebow (née Nel-Peters) who is a South African model and former beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2017. She was crowned Miss South Africa 2017, and is the second Miss Universe winner from South Africa.

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