Thousands of anti-abortion protesters denouncing the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision on its 36th anniversary flooded the National Mall.
The annual March for Life started with prayer services in the Verizon Center, then moved to a noontime rally on the Mall and concluded with a march to the Supreme Court. The crowd of protesters, which stretched for about a quarter-mile on the Mall in front of the Capitol, invoked the rhetoric used by President Obama in his inauguration speech two days earlier.
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