President Donald Trump has reiterated his support for tighter abortion restrictions, pledging at the annual March for Life rally in Washington. 9News
The event was founded in 1974 by anti-abortion activist Nellie Gray, and typically attracts about 100,000 participants hailing from across the country.As the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is conducted inside the Senate, activists attending the March for Life anti-abortion rally visit the Capitol in Washington.
Mr Trump is the first president to attend the march, March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said. He was also the first president to speak at the march via satellite feed when he addressed participants in 2018.on the campaign trail and has taken numerous actions in office to do so. Since taking office in 2017, Mr Trump has reinstated a ban on US government funding for international non-governmental organisations that perform or promote abortions, appointed anti-abortion judges and opposed abortions later in pregnancy. The Department of Health and Human Services has also advanced multiple measures to regulate or restrict abortion access, some with the professed aim of protecting health care providers' religious freedom, during his tenure. The Mr Trump campaign will also create another anti-abortion rights coalition going into the 2020 election, as it did in 2016, to be helmed again by anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser, the group's national spokeswoman announced on the eve of the march. The march has enjoyed support from multiple Republican administrations in the past and Mr Trump's has been no different. In 2017, Vice President Mike Pence and White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway both spoke at the event, with the vice president doing so again in 2019. Former presidents have made telephone calls in to the march, with both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush addressing the event via phone.
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