A large contingent of university students from across the country joined the annual March for Life on Friday, expressing hope that the overturn of Roe v. Wade last June represented a new beginning for the anti-abortion movement.
As in previous years, students from a number of universities, especially from Catholic and Christian institutions, made overnight bus trips from states as far as Kansas to the nation’s capital for the first March for Life after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade last summer in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
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“We might be in post-Roe world, but we still need to fight, and we still need to advocate for even more,” Mary Stempky, a senior at Franciscan University of Steubenville, told the Washington Examiner. “We need to keep going, keep pushing, until we make abortion unthinkable.”
Stempky was one of hundreds of students at Franciscan University that made a five-hour trek from eastern Ohio to Washington, D.C. Other institutions with large contingents included Ave Maria University in Florida, Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, and Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
A poll released this week from Marist and the Knights of Columbus found 56% of adults supported legalized abortion through the first three months of pregnancy. Among adults age 18-29, that abortion support jumped to 64% in the first three months.
Still, at the March for Life, a strong contingent of young anti-abortion activists came out in force.
Students from Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia, told the Washington Examiner that opposing abortion is a cultural mainstay at the small Catholic college and that the vast majority of the student body — some 500 students — came to the march Friday.
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“It’s still important to be seen even though Roe v. Wade has been overturned,” said a Christendom student, Mary, who declined to give her last name. “It’s still a huge issue within the United States of America.”
