50th anniversary: Butler County residents ready to attend March for Life on Friday
Anti-abortion activists march towards the U.S. Supreme Court during the March for Life in Washington, Jan. 21, 2022. Anti-abortion activists will have multiple reasons to celebrate – and some reasons for unease -- when they gather Friday, Jan. 20, 2023 in Washington for the annual March for Life. The march has been held since January 1974 – a year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision established a nationwide right to abortion. AP Photo
The March for Life will celebrate its 50th anniversary Friday, and, as usual, Butler County residents will be involved.
The largest and longest-running pro-life demonstration in the world was created in 1973 at the Washington, D.C., kitchen table of attorney Nellie Gray, who feared the Jan. 22 Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade would pass without public recognition.
Anita Theiss, regional coordinator for the national and state March for Life for Western Pennsylvania, said she is almost certain Butler County residents have been traveling to the nation’s capital for each of the last 49 years to support the lives of the unborn.
People interested in riding one of the buses to March for Life should visit phlbutler.org.
