The March for Life last year boasted more than 100,000 attendees, a record number for the largest annual anti-abortion demonstration. Then-President Donald Trump spoke before a massive crowd on the National Mall and declared the event a “very special moment.”

The protest was one of the last massive gatherings to occur in Washington, D.C., before the coronavirus hit the United States, and many advocates argued at the time that it was a turning point for a movement that for more than 50 years has sought to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade.