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Input: Opponents of abortion watching the women’s march on their televisions last Saturday stewed as they saw the Planned Parenthood logo over the stage and the actress Scarlett Johansson praising the group for the gynecological care she received as a teenager. 
  
 But for these viewers, there was an even bigger problem. The women’s march had drawn an estimated half-million people to Washington, and many more to simultaneous demonstrations around the country, dominating the nation’s news coverage just six days before abortion foes were holding their annual march. 
  
 Since then, the organizers of that march have been telling their followers: You’d better turn out on Friday. 
  
 This year’s anti-abortion march in Washington – the 44th annual March for Life — was expected to be a celebratory event at which abortion opponents could finally savor a few victories. The new president, Donald J. Trump, is already delivering on his promises to sign a slate of anti-abortion measures. He has promised to nominate a Supreme Court justice who could overturn Roe v. Wade, the decision that legalized abortion 44 years ago. And a Congress dominated by Republicans is poised to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. ||||| For the first time at the annual anti-abortion March for Life rally, a vice president addressed the crowds gathered in Washington, D.C. 
  
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 Vice President Mike Pence, a Catholic and longtime supporter of the anti-abortion movement who enacted some of the strictest abortion laws in the country as governor of Indiana, told cheering supporters gathered on the National Mall “life is winning again in America.” 
  
 "Along with you, we will not grow weary, we will not rest until we restore a culture of life in America for ourselves and our posterity," said Pence. 
  
 The march, which began in front of the Washington Monument, ends at the steps of the United States Supreme Court. Pence said at the pre-march event that next week, President Donald Trump will announce a Supreme Court nominee in the anti-abortion jurisprudence of the late Antonin Scalia who “will uphold the God-given liberties enshrined in our Constitution.” 
  
 Out on the campaign trail, Trump frequently said that he would nominate “pro-life” judges to the Supreme Court. And while Trump was not able to attend the rally, he expressed his support on Twitter. 
  
 “The #MarchForLife is so important. To all of you marching --- you have my full support!” Trump tweeted. 
  
 The #MarchForLife is so important. To all of you marching --- you have my full support! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 27, 2017 
  
 Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway joined Pence in representing the Trump administration. 
  
 “Steps away from here in the White House a president and vice president sit at their desks and make decisions for a nation. as they sit there, they stand here with you,” said Conway. “This is a time of incredible promise for pro-life, pro-adoption movement. Our action must reach those women who face unplanned pregnancies, they should know they are not alone. They’re not judged. They’re protected and cared for and celebrated. So to the March for Life 2017 allow me to make it very clear -- we hear you, we see you, we respect you, and we look forward to working with you.” 
  
 The March for Life draws advocates against abortion rights from around the country to Washington, D.C. It is held each year around the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, made on Jan. 22, 1973. 
  
 Many in the movement against abortion rights have spoken highly of the Trump administration. Tom McCluksy, vice president of government affairs at the March for Life, expressed optimism for the advancement of an anti-abortion agenda in the first 100 days. 
  
 “Trump has made pro-life promises and has assembled a team of personnel with incredible pro-life convictions, and qualifications, starting with ... Pence,” he wrote in a blog post. 
  
 This year’s march centers on the theme “The Power of One.” Beyond Pence and Conway, speakers included Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, and conservative author Eric Metaxas. 
  
 “It is our hope that this year’s March for Life will encourage each of us to seek and fulfill our unique mission to the best of our ability because only in doing so we will collectively build a culture of life in the U.S. -- a culture where abortion is unthinkable,” March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said in a statement. ||||| Vice President Pence, shown speaking at an inaugural ball on Jan. 21, 2017, is scheduled to speak at Saturday's annual anti-abortion march. (Photo: Alex Brandon, AP) 
  
 WASHINGTON – Vice President Pence will become the highest-ranking government official to speak in person at an annual anti-abortion march in Washington on Friday. 
  
 Pence, who was an early congressional leader of efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, was a regular speaker at the March for Life during the 12 years he served in Congress. 
  
 But he will be the highest-ranking White House official to ever speak. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush spoke to marchers via remote audio hookup. 
  
 Organizers had previously announced that Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump would speak. 
  
 Pence's appearance was first reported by The New York Times on Thursday. 
  
 The vice president confirmed his appearance in a tweet after meeting with anti-abortion activists in his office Thursday night. 
  
 Honored to meet with Pro-Life leaders in my office tonight. Just told them I look forward to addressing National @March_for_Life on Friday. pic.twitter.com/vLSO9TOXKY — Vice President Pence (@VP) January 26, 2017 
  
 Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life, said participants are thrilled Pence is coming. 
  
 “Vice President Pence has been a friend and champion of the pro-life cause his entire career," Mancini said in a statement. She said Pence has shown "how one person can, indeed, make a difference in the ultimate human right -- the right to life." 
  
 During the campaign, Pence promised social conservatives he would be their champion in the White House, particularly in fighting abortion and Planned Parenthood. 
  
 “Let me assure you the Trump/Pence administration will stand for the sanctity of life and defend the unborn from the first day that we take office,” he said when addressing the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit in September. “I want to live to see the day that we put the sanctity of life back at the center of American law and we send Roe v. Wade to the ash heap of history,” he said referring to the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. 
  
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 Asked two days before his inauguration how he planned to fulfill his promise, Pence told USA TODAY that it’s Trump who “will be their champion.” 
  
 “The president has taken a strong stand on the sanctity of life and you know I share that conviction,” Pence said. 
  
 He said his job as vice president is to support that agenda and to reach out to lawmakers, the public and groups around the country to “marshal the support necessary to achieve those successes.” 
  
 One of the first executive orders Trump signed Monday prohibits U.S. aid from supporting international groups that promote abortion. 
  
 The House voted Tuesday to permanently restrict federal tax dollars from paying for abortions for low-income women on Medicaid. That measure, which is unlikely to survive a Democratic filibuster in the Senate, would make permanent the language which is regularly included in annual spending bills blocking federal funding for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. 
  
 House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has promised that legislation to repeal Obamacare will also halt government funds from going to Planned Parenthood. 
  
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 Planned Parenthood received $553.7 million in government funding in 2014. The majority of the money comes by way of reimbursement for services the centers provide to Medicaid patients. While Planned Parenthood does perform abortions,government funds can only be used to pay for them in cases of rape or incest or when a woman’s life is in danger. 
  
 Planned Parenthood has planned 300 nationwide events over the next three months and an advocacy campaign to get people to contact their members of Congress. 
  
 But anti-abortion lawmakers and groups are optimistic about the help they will get from the new administration, particularly because of Pence. 
  
 “Pence's strong pro-life commitment will become readily apparent to those in our nation's capital,” Mike Fichter, the head of Indiana Right to Life said in a statement congratulating Pence last week. “Pence understands that the right to life is foundational to who we are as Americans.” 
  
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 Abortion-rights advocates and abortion-rights opponents don’t see eye to eye on much, but they do agree on this: Nobody hates Planned Parenthood quite as much as Mike Pence. 
  
 The Indiana Republican is on a one-man crusade to deny all federal funding to the group — not just the money it gets for reproductive health and family planning services, but every penny it gets for anything. 
  
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 “If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions,” Pence told POLITICO in an interview Tuesday. “As long as they aspire to do that, I’ll be after them.” 
  
 For three legislative sessions in a row, Pence has introduced legislation that would prevent any entity that provides abortion from receiving funds through Title X, the only federal program dedicated to reproductive health and family planning. 
  
 This week, Pence went even further, introducing an amendment to the continuing resolution that would strip Planned Parenthood — and Planned Parenthood alone — of all federal funding. 
  
 Pence’s latest maneuver comes at an inopportune time for many in the Republican Party. 
  
 Some GOP leaders — including Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels — have urged their party to downplay hot-button social issues in order to win over moderate voters ahead of the 2012 presidential race. Others, like House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), have said House Republicans must focus on creating jobs and cutting spending. 
  
 But Pence’s unyielding anti-abortion stance has made him a favorite of social conservatives, many of whom were hoping he’d run for president in 2012. He says he won’t, and that he may run for governor in Indiana instead. 
  
 In the meantime, his goal is clear: Starve Planned Parenthood of cash so that it will have no choice but to stop performing abortions. 
  
 “I am interested in doing what we can, in the balance of this fiscal year, to end public funding of Planned Parenthood, specifically,” Pence said. 
  
 Activists on both sides of the abortion debate tell POLITICO they’ve never seen a legislator pursue Planned Parenthood with such a single-minded focus. 
  
 “He’s the only one I know of who has been so completely obsessed with Planned Parenthood,” said the group’s president, Cecile Richards. “This just seems to be an enormous focus of his.” 
  
 “He’s both a true believer and a policy wonk,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, one of the leading anti-abortion organizations. “He understands that Planned Parenthood is the fulcrum of the abortion movement.” 
  
 For years now, Planned Parenthood has received a significant portion of the money awarded through Title X, which can pay for pelvic exams, breast exams, safer-sex counseling and basic infertility counseling, among other things. 
  
 Planned Parenthood estimates it received a quarter of the $317 million in Title X funds appropriated last year. A third of its budget came from government grants in 2009, according to the organization’s 2008-2009 annual report. 
  
 Title X money can’t be used to pay for abortions, and Pence does not allege that Planned Parenthood has improperly used Title X funds to do so. 
  
 But Planned Parenthood performed 328,300 abortions in 2008, which would account for about a quarter of the 1.21 million abortions that year, according to statistics from the Guttmacher Institute. And those abortions made up 3 percent of the patient services that Planned Parenthood offered in 2008. |||||
Output:
The Women's March on Washington Saturday drew about 500,000 people, with millions more demonstrating worldwide. Six days later, another march is taking place in DC, and the New York Times notes this event may be tinged with "a new sense of urgency, anxiety, and maybe a little envy." The 44th anti-abortion March for Life is set for Friday, and one organizer says they're "pulling out all the stops" to boost attendance, which last year was marred by a snowstorm. What organizers hope will draw crowds: speeches by VP Mike Pence and Kellyanne Conway, excitement over a possible new Supreme Court justice who could overturn Roe v. Wade, and "pent-up energy" from those who canceled last year due to the inclement weather. The march is scheduled to start shortly before noon with a rally close to the Washington Monument before participants head over to the Supreme Court, ABC News reports. Pence, who's lobbied over the years to defund Planned Parenthood, is said to be the highest-ranking White House official to ever speak in person at the event, per USA Today; speeches by Reagan and George W. Bush at previous marches were piped in. In the end, though, March for Life President Jeanne Mancini says there's a number more important than how many show up for Friday's march: 58 million, "the number of Americans [who] have been lost to abortion," she tells the Times. (Trump signed an executive order Monday that keeps federal funds from going toward international groups that provide or give info on abortions.)