{"id":6050,"date":"2024-01-20T23:10:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T17:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/20\/watch-the-march-for-life-here-huge-crowd-of-pro-life-activists-braves-snow-in-dc\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T23:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T17:40:18","slug":"watch-the-march-for-life-here-huge-crowd-of-pro-life-activists-braves-snow-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/20\/watch-the-march-for-life-here-huge-crowd-of-pro-life-activists-braves-snow-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH the &#8216;March for Life&#8217; Here: Huge Crowd of Pro-Life Activists Braves Snow in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-cbn-component-name=\"wysiwyg_editor\">\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Tens of thousands of pro-lifers rallied\u00a0in the nation&#8217;s capital on Friday despite the snow and icy weather.\u00a0The 51st annual March for Life aims to challenge abortion and champion the beauty of choosing life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re all keenly aware that there is work to be done,&#8221; March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said. &#8220;We&#8217;re not just for the baby, but we&#8217;re certainly not for the baby without the mother. We&#8217;re for both.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said one key to changing hearts is highlighting the pregnancy centers and maternity homes that support women and families during and after pregnancy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, the March for Life kind of allows for sort of a springboard to talk about these deeper issues,&#8221; Mancini said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH CBN News Live Coverage from the March for Life HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIVE Coverage: March for Life 2024\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4UriKO1Wc6Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Political Challenges on Abortion in 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The march comes as activists address formidable challenges this election year.<\/p>\n<p>The next major battle is access to the abortion pill as the Supreme Court reviews a case involving access to mifepristone. Justices are set to review a ruling by a federal appeals court that allows the pill to be distributed by mail.<\/p>\n<p>Mancini contends the abortion pill is four times more dangerous than surgical abortion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MUST SEE\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.cbn.com\/news\/health\/supreme-court-showdown-coming-after-fda-approved-black-box-abortion-drug-mail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court Showdown Coming After FDA Approved &#8216;Black Box&#8217; Abortion Drug Via Mail<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The decision is likely to come by summer in the middle of the 2024 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue faced by pro-lifers is whether abortion can win at the ballot box.\u00a0Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, every pro-life ballot referendum on a statewide ballot has failed.\u00a0But, all statewide ballot initiatives to expand abortion rights have passed.<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said families should be protected, not politicized. This month her state started a mobile app that connects pregnant women and mothers to everything from free pregnancy tests to parenting classes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(We are) stepping in to be the safety net, to help them, to guide them,&#8221; Fitch said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poll Reveals Americans&#8217; &#8216;Consistent Consensus&#8217; on Restricting Abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2024\/01\/18\/as-tens-of-thousands-of-pro-lifers-set-to-attend-march-for-life-poll-reveals-americans-consistent-consensus-on-restricting-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBN News&#8217; Faithwire<\/a> reports, an annual poll released this week shows precisely where Americans stand on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>According to Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly, the 2024 Knights of Columbus-Marist Poll results offer a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/new-2024-knights-of-columbus-marist-poll-a-consistent-consensus-of-americans-continue-to-support-legal-limits-on-abortion-302037511.html\">consistent consensus<\/a>\u201d showing citizens\u2019 backing for legal restrictions on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The survey found 66% of respondents back limitations on abortion, with the majority also supporting capping the procedure at three months of pregnancy. Just 29% of Americans indicated they believe abortion should be legally permissible at any point in a pregnancy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/a-new-poll-shows-strong-support-for-pro-life-policy-goals\/\">according to National Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to these importing findings, Americans also overwhelmingly \u2014 88% \u2014 believe it\u2019s possible to have laws protecting both a woman and her unborn child. Overall, the percentage calling themselves pro-life is at 40%, up one percentage point from the previous year\u2019s polling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2024\/01\/18\/as-tens-of-thousands-of-pro-lifers-set-to-attend-march-for-life-poll-reveals-americans-consistent-consensus-on-restricting-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Click here to read the rest of that story.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2024\/january\/51st-march-for-life-in-dc-highlights-pregnancy-centers-ms-creates-safety-net\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Tens of thousands of pro-lifers rallied\u00a0in the nation&#8217;s capital on Friday despite the snow and icy weather.\u00a0The 51st annual March for Life aims to challenge abortion and champion the beauty of choosing life.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;re all keenly aware that there is work to be done,&#8221; March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said. &#8220;We&#8217;re not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}