Thousands gathered at Washington’s National Mall on Friday, January 24, for the annual March for Life event protesting abortion.Footage filmed and posted to X by Brendan Gutenschwager shows a crowd of people gathered in Washington, DC, on Friday, in front of a “March for Life” stage near the Washington Monument.According to the March for Life website, the event takes place around the anniversary of Roe v Wade, which was overturned in June 2022. Since then, the event has emphasized changing abortion-access laws at the state level.“With the role of the states being more important, we are also growing a strong state march for life initiative quickly. However, we will continue to march every January at the national level until a culture of life is restored in the United States of America,” the activist group wrote on its website. Credit: Brendan Gutenschwager via Storyful