Overview

• Tens of thousands of anti-abortion advocates are expected to gather in Washington D.C. for the annual March for Life, the second rally since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
• The rally comes ahead of a presidential election in which some Republican candidates favor abortion bans nationwide.
• Organizers anticipate that 50,000 people will gather for the rally near the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and that 100,000 will attend the march to the Capitol and the Supreme Court.
• Despite the overturning of Roe v. Wade, abortion rights advocates have been on a winning streak at the polls with voters in seven states either passing ballot measures to protect abortion access or rejecting efforts to restrict it.
• Abortion rights are expected to be a major Democratic rallying cry in President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign.