Mr. President, this coming Friday, tens of thousands of Americans will take to the snowy streets of Washington, DC, to exercise their fundamental rights on behalf of millions of others who cannot. They will come from every State in the Union, including the State of Utah, to march to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fittingly, they will be marching down Constitution Avenue in the name of justice and in defense of the innocent. The March for Life is a spectacular tradition in American politics, a mass demonstration of joy. Despite its size and the diversity of its participants--sometimes north of 100,000 souls, born and unborn--the march is typically ignored by the mainstream media. The marchers also know that the Supreme Court, rightly, is not supposed to be swayed by public opinion one way or another. Yet they march January after January after January, cheerfully, prayerfully, happily, peacefully, bundled up against the cold, with babies in their strollers, and wearing smiles on their faces. I have been, and I can confirm that the March for Life is the happiest protest you can see because they march not principally in outrage over the lives lost to the scourge of abortion but in abiding hope for the lives yet to be saved. The March for Life is often seen as the pro-life movement's response to the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.…
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