Tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists parade in Washington, hailed by Donald Trump

Tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists paraded on Friday, January 24 in Washington for an annual demonstration on Friday, organized less than a week after Donald Trump's return to the White House. 52^e Edition of this march for life takes place in the aftermath of the grace granted by the new Republican president to 23 people who participated in demonstrations against abortion and who were prosecuted under the administration of the Democrat Joe Biden.

On the road to North Carolina and California on Friday, Donald Trump addressed demonstrators through a recorded video message. “During my second term, we will be fighting again proudly for families and for life”he said in his video to the demonstrators.

“We will protect the historical achievements that we have obtained and we will put an end to the efforts of democratic extremists who want a federal right to limitless abortion and on demand, until birth and even after birth”launched Donald Trump on Friday, repeating that his opponents were favorable to the execution of babies after birth, an unfounded affirmation.

“Change culture to eventually make abortion inconceivable”

JD Vance, the American vice-president, and Mike Johnson, the president of the House of Representatives, spoke before the demonstrators. Members of the American supremacist white group and neonazi Patriot Front were identified in the middle of the parade brandishing flags and religious images. The organizers of this walk explain that their objective is not only to change the laws, federal and state, “But also to change the culture to eventually make abortion inconceivable”.

In the procession that paraded from the White House to the Supreme Court and in the Capitol, seat of the American Congress, signs “love little beings”, “we are not played out of God”, or “life is Our revolution ”were brandished. Some caps of the Trumpist movement “Make America Great Again” were also visible but most of the participants did not arise a sign of political affiliation.

The pro-life movement recorded a historic victory in June 2022, when the US Supreme Court canceled the ROE judgment vs Wade, who protected access to abortion at the federal level. Donald Trump, who during his first mandate appointed three conservative judges to the Supreme Court, often welcomes to having contributed to the end of the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion.

Following this reversal of case law, many conservative states have prohibited or very severely limited the use of voluntary pregnancy interruptions. Today, almost one in three American people between 18 and 44 years old lives in one of these states. Thousands of Americans are forced to undertake painful and expensive trips to abort.