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January 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – For the first time in history, a U.S. president will attend in person and speak at the annual March for Life that is happening in Washington D.C. on Friday.
President Trump announced today that he will be speaking at the 2020 March for Life on January 24, an annual event attended by hundreds of thousands to protest legal abortion.
“We are deeply honored to welcome President Trump to the 47th annual March for Life," said Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life.
"He will be the first president in history to attend and we are so excited for him to experience in person how passionate our marchers are about life and protecting the unborn," she continued.
"From the appointment of pro-life judges and federal workers, to cutting taxpayer funding for abortions here and abroad, to calling for an end to late-term abortions, President Trump and his Administration have been consistent champions for life and their support for the March for Life has been unwavering. We are grateful for all these pro-life accomplishments and look forward to gaining more victories for life in the future," she added.
Trump tweeted today that he will see the "big crowd" on Friday.
The theme of this year’s March is, Life Empowers: Pro-Life is Pro-Woman.
In a surprise appearance last year via video link, President Trump addressed pro-life advocates at the 2019 March for Life, telling them that "every life is worth protecting" and that he will veto any legislation that crosses his desk that "weakens the protection of human life."
"Today, I have signed a letter to Congress to make clear that if they send any legislation to my desk that weakens the protection of human life, I will issue a veto. And, we have the support to uphold those vetoes. Every child is a sacred gift from God," he said in the pre-recorded video message.
“Today I am very proud to welcome tens of thousands of families, students, and people of all faiths and backgrounds to our nation’s capital for the 46th annual March for Life,” the President said at that time.
Trump is considered by many veteran pro-life activists to be the most pro-life president in history.
As president, Trump has reinstated and expanded the ban on foreign aid to abortion-involved groups (including International Planned Parenthood Federation), banned groups that commit or refer abortions from Title X family planning funds, overturned Obama-era regulations that barred states from defunding Planned Parenthood, and issued rules protecting Americans from being forced to subsidize abortion in government-mandated health insurance plans.
The president has also forcefully denounced abortion, calling attention to Democrats’ opposition to anti-infanticide legislation and calling on Congress to send him a ban on late-term abortion to sign. Most of his judicial nominees have pleased pro-lifers, as well.
In addition, the administration has consistently worked to defend life and oppose abortion at the United Nations, from resisting pro-abortion agenda items and resolution language to affirming that abortion isn’t a human right and promoting abstinence education.
This year, Trump declared January 22, the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision imposing abortion on demand across the country, to be “National Sanctity of Human Life Day.”
In a proclamation issued yesterday, Trump declared that “every person — the born and unborn, the poor, the downcast, the disabled, the infirm, and the elderly — has inherent value” and said that the U.S. “proudly and strongly reaffirms our commitment to protect the precious gift of life at every stage, from conception to natural death.”
He touted his administration’s pro-life achievements at home and abroad.
The proclamation referenced his administration’s efforts to build “an international coalition to dispel the concept of abortion as a fundamental human right” and said that his administration would “oppose any projects that attempt to assert a global right to taxpayer‑funded abortion on demand, up to the moment of delivery.”
“We will never tire of defending innocent life — at home or abroad,” he promised.
Editor's note: LifeSiteNews' Calvin Freiburger contributed to this report.
I was very happy with the security considering the risks especially at the parade.
I have learned people will always complain about something. You should probably stay home next year.
I can’t believe no other “pro-life” president has attended this. Seriously?
That is the first thought that crossed my mind.
IF he only speaks and does not march, security is easier. Hopefully he is only speaking
Dear Lord, bless and protect our president Donald J. Trump.
God Bless President Trump!
Can they keep him safe?
Go Trumpie, Go Gals, Guys, Kiddies, Americans All, Protect the lives of unborn babies, give them the life they deserve, for God knows one of these infants from God, Almighty, can grow to become a leader, a savior of our world, for all mankind living in peace with each other,...whether he or she is White, Black, Yellow, Brown, etc., of skin color, religion or, culture!!! March, March, March for life with One of our greatest Americans, POTUS, Donald J. Trump.....fill the streets of Washington, DC with tens of thousands of like people, if not millions and across the entire nation streets...too.
Lay scorn openly on the likes of the entire Democrat Party...the killers of unborn infants as they snuff human infant life out, not their own...but, the lives of innocent unborn infants, especially these hateful, evil, SATAN worshippers who are truly killers of unborn life, Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler, Maxine Waters, and the entire Democrat Party which must be destroyed, Politically as it is now doing to itself internally!!!
DEMOCRAT VOTERS IN IOWA, BOYCOTT THE IOWA PRIMARY CAUCUS...Biden is a criminal...wake up, your candidates for POTUS in 2020 are garbage bin material, all of them!!! Sit on your hands, do not vote or Write in Donald J. Trump!!! Protect your farmers, your energy producers, your employment, your freedom, your liberty, your magnificent country!!!
When citizen Donald Trump came down that escalator I was mad, thinking he was simply looking for TV time. I was wrong.
While raising my kids, I mentioned President Ronald Reagan a lot, telling them we’d never have another president like him. I was wrong.
President Trump is what we’ve all been hoping/praying for all these years, and I hope he has set the bar so high that it becomes difficult for a media appeaser like Romney to get the nomination.
Donald Trump has the greatest drive and leadership skills of anyone I’ve ever heard of... outside of the Bible, that is.
Folks....Washington DC Hotels are filled to the brim, as Americans flock into Washington, DC by the hundreds of thousands for the Right To Life March tomorrow, where a highlight will be the attendance of POTUS, Doanld J. Trump at the March!!! Go,Trumpie...we love the American people you!!!
I see Reagan paving the way for Trump. Both fantastic in my eyes.
10 teenagers from my Church will be attending (with adult chaperones). They or their parents had to pay to defray costs too! I’m praying for them and can’t wait to hear their stories when they return.
Eddie Sweat, The magnificent, African-American, “Groom” of the great Champion Racehorse, “Secretariat” was closer to the master horse then any other human being. For some unknown Godly reason, the Lord chose to bind these two creatures together into a seamless unit of undying love and brotherhood!!!
Just prior to the Kentucky Derby, which “Secretariat” would win, the majestic strong horse developed a tooth abyss that could have caused him to not be able to run in the Derby. But his soul mate, Eddie Sweat nurtured the horse and soon “Secretariat was eating normally and getting strong. In the movie, “Secretariat”....Sweat goes out from the horse stable area onto the racetrack proper very early in the dew filled morning,...spreads his arms out looking up at his maker and shouts out loud to the world these words or, something close to them!!!
“Kentucky, Wake Up, Cause You All Are Gonna See Something, You done never seen before”...Wake Up, Kentucky, the day is here”!!! Of course, “Secretariat” won the Kentucky Derby that year, I believe it was, 1973 and then went on to win at the Belmont Stakes, taking and earning the “TRIPLE CROWN” with an amazing unchallenged victory, winning by Thirty-Three (33) lengths!!!
So “Americans, Women, Men, Boys, Girls....Wake Up....Cause tomorrow morning in the streets of Washington DC., you all are gonna see something, ya done never seen before. America, Americans, Wake Up, Tomorrow Morning...The day of Life for all of our unborn infants is here!!!
Democrat voters all, across the United States BOYCOTT your 2020 POTUS PRIMARIES and destroy the Democrat Party...politically...Traitors/Turncoats that they all are!!!
Go, Trump, Go, America, Go Americans!!! God bless all of you!!!
I pray about his safety every single day. . .Love this President and his courage. . . He is making MAGA a promise he is keeping. God Bless him!
The 2016 Hussein Head “consistent conservative” trolls here must be so disappointed.
This will be a massive crowd, hope the secret service protects him from the handful of nuts that will attend to disrupt.
BTTT!!!
Think about it. No president prior has attended this. What does that say about previous occupants of the Oval Office?
It’s taken this long to get a president who cares about infanticide? That’s pretty damn sad.
This is amazing ...I’ve attended one march only during the Bush years. For all the talk, he didn’t attend, but rather broadcasted through a speaker. It left me feeling like he truly didn’t think it important enough.
Will also help to promote the march, as I’m sure there are still many Americans who aren’t aware of it, due to the usually poor media coverage of it.
Trump making American great for ALL Americans, including the unborn!!!
[Think about it. No president prior has attended this. What does that say about previous occupants of the Oval Office?
It’s taken this long to get a president who cares about infanticide? That’s pretty damn sad.]
Yes, it just shows that Boosh (good friends of Obama and Clintons) never had the guts to do it.
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