With the long-sought goal of overturning Roe v. Wade achieved, antiabortion activists set new priorities.
— witnessed those changes. She saw the march shift from overwhelmingly Catholic to include more evangelical “movers and shakers.” She saw a drop in activism in the 1990s after Congress passed laws protecting clinic access. She saw Christian schools start sending buses of students, turning the march’s face younger.
has come from Baltimore County to the march for decades with a huge banner that shows a fetal outline and the words: “Justices, overturn Roe and sentence us to life on Earth!”e has got to go!’ Everyone was cheering. It was almost like a high school football game,” she said of the march, which she always finds both incredibly sad as well as very uplifting.
In the early 1970s, the march, like the movement, was overwhelmingly Catholic. And with that came a framework that explicitly matched orthodox Catholic teaching: Life begins at conception. The motto of march founder Nellie Gray was: “No exceptions, no compromise!” In the early years, politicians and politics were looked at much more skeptically, said Rob Schenck, an evangelical minister who was for decades a leading antiabortion activist but has become critical of the movement.
“Anytime the leader of the free world is coming, you know he will draw a line in the sand for future pro-life leaders,” she said.“We kept keeping the issue alive as we did, and the march was a big part of why we got so much further in America,” she said, describing the movement as less engaged in Europe.
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