House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) called on a new generation to take up the mantle of the anti-abortion movement after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.
“For those of you that are about to become 18 or just turned 18, you’ve got to register. You got to vote,” he said at the 50th annual March for Life on Friday. “You got to go support pro-life candidates because it matters. It matters. Life and death is at stake.”
Scalise appeared on behalf of Republican leadership at the first demonstration since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling returned the issue of abortion to the states and the legislative branch.
“This has been a battle for decades in the United States,” Scalise said. “And the Left will have you believe that all young people are just here to support the abortion industry. You are showing us and giving us hope that the young people of America support life, defend life, are here to march for life.”
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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) released a statement in support of the March for Life and welcomed the demonstrators to Washington, D.C.
“This noble mission would not be possible without your voices year after year,” he said. “It is even more meaningful this year as we mark the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the first year of a post-Roe America. While others raise their voices in rage and hatred, you march with prayers, goodwill, fellowship, compassion, and devotion in defense of the most defenseless in this country.”
In the first week of the new Congress, Republicans passed two anti-abortion pieces of legislation: the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, sponsored by Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO), and a resolution to condemn violence against crisis pregnancy centers.
“With your help, we have a majority in Congress that is standing up for life. As part of the House Republican Commitment to America, we promised to protect the lives of the unborn and their mothers,” McCarthy’s statement continued.
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Last year, House Democrats passed the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would enshrine the right to abortion access at the federal level, but the bill failed in the Senate.
The March for Life used to follow a path from the National Mall to the Supreme Court, but since the Dobbs decision, the protest now ends at the Capitol.
