The day before the march, he and Vice President JD Vance were added to the programming. Since 1974, the nation’s biggest anti-abortion gathering has persisted in efforts to “make abortion illegal and unthinkable,

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued pardons for nearly two dozen people who were convicted for blocking access to and temporarily shutting down abortion clinics, some of whom are currently serving federal sentences. “They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people,” Trump said. “This is a great honor to sign this.”

Rally organizers estimated a crowd of up to 150,000 would turn out and send a message to Trump, who is a complicated figure for the antiabortion movement.