Among the crowd were a few scattered attendees with pro-life signs advocating for unborn and aborted children. Others with signs such as “Keep abortion legal” and “Abortion on demand without apology” surrounded them, attempting to block the graphic images and yelling profanities at them as the pro-life sign holders stood with their signs in silence. Less than a week after the Women’s March, hundreds of thousands of people flocked to D.C. for the 47th annual March for Life. This year, these two marches stood in particularly stark contrast with the March for Life theme being “pro-life is pro-woman”. It is no secret that pro-life women never had representation in the so-called Women’s March, whose exclusion of this large percentage of women in the country may have substantially contributed to the Women’s March demise into near irrelevancy. 
YAF hosted its Winter Activism Training Seminar in tandem with the March for Life, allowing more than 120 college students and YAF chapter members to attend the march. These students witnessed history in the making when President Trump became the first sitting U.S. President to attend and address the March for Life. Numerous bipartisan members of Congress were in attendance or submitted short videos to show their support. The March for Life could not have been more different from the Women’s March. The Women’s March mainly catered to an increasingly diminished population clearly battling insignificance. The March for Life represented the continuing significance of the pro-life movement and its effect on young people especially. Even after 47 years of abortion being legal in the U.S. the pro-life movement continues to grow and make positive change that was evident and on full display at the March for Life.
