Today in Washington, tens of thousands of people will venture out into an historic blizzard on the National Mall, to march for the most fundamental right of them all — the right to life.

The most striking thing about the annual March For Life, aside from news media’s reflex to ignore it, is that it is dominated by young people. As Nancy Keenan, formerly the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, once said upon seeing the marchers, “I just thought, my gosh, they are so young … There are so many of them, and they are so young.”