March for Life 2023 theme announced: ‘Next Steps: Marching in a Post-Roe America’

The 2023 theme for the annual March for Life was announced Thursday in preparation for the first march after the historic overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide.

The theme of the 50th annual march — which will take place on Jan. 20, 2023 — titled “Next Steps: Marching in a Post-Roe America,” seeks to orient the national pro-life movement as it moves to dismantle abortion across all 50 states.

Jeanne Mancini, March for Life president, said in opening remarks at an event to announce the theme that she believed the testimony of marching every year was critical in changing the hearts and minds of Americans and leading to the reversal of what many deemed to be “settled in law.”

“Your testimony, marching in Washington, D.C., shutting down the city every year for the largest human rights demonstration worldwide has borne fruit!” she told the audience.