Roe v. Wade

The 2026 national March for Life promises to bring tens of thousands of pro-life Americans to the nation’s capital to celebrate the beauty of every human person, born and unborn, with the theme “Life Is a Gift.”

In honor of National Foster Care Month in May, and ahead of Dobbs’ third anniversary, Kimberly Henkel, co-founder of Springs of Love in Pennsylvania, joined other Catholic ministry leaders to call for deeper engagement. They stressed that while not everyone is called to foster or adopt, every Catholic can support families who do.

The Catholic Church designates Jan. 22 as the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. It is a particular day “for prayer, penance, and our personal recommitment to the cause of life.”

The March for Life’s theme for its 2024 event will be “Pro-Life: With Every Woman, For Every Child.” Pro-life advocates have gathered in Washington to march each year since then to protest the ruling in 1974.

The Chicago-based group is planning prayer vigils at nearly 100 abortion facilities in 29 states.

Describing the court’s reversal decision on the 1973 Roe v. Wade as “extraordinary,” the bishops said that the work to support families must be widened.

“Marian Blue Wave participants commit to pray a weekly rosary with the specific intentions of ending all types of abortions — including surgical, pill, contraceptive and in vitro fertilization — and shutting down every Planned Parenthood facility in America,” said a news release from the organization.

“If we continue to view one another as occupying intellectual and spiritual spaces at the edges of what’s acceptable, we’ll feel justified in pushing our perceived enemies over the line and into the abyss.”