Wyoming Delegation Shows Out To Support National March For Life

U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, welcomed tens of thousands of pro-life demonstrators Friday for the annual National March for Life event in Washington, D.C., which drew thousands of people to rally against abortion and for efforts to end it.

“Thank you for your remarkable dedication,” the Senate’s second-ranking Republican says in a video message posted to his X account. “As a doctor, I know how important it is to protect life. And I know how important it is to support mothers and children during every stage of their lives.

“You are the boots on the ground in continuing the fight for life, and we are so grateful for every step you’ve taken to change our nation for the better,” he added.

The event included scores of school and church groups from all over the country, many identifiable by banners or clothing. Wyoming Right to Life did not respond to email and voice messages from Cowboy State Daily seeking comment about the event.

Although she wasn’t at the march, U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, spoke at an indoor reception Friday morning associated with the event.

“I will always be committed to protecting the most vulnerable among us — our babies,” Hageman wrote on X.

Hageman is a cosponsor of legislation called the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which recently passed the House.

Lead sponsor of the legislation, Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Missouri, says it “ensures that infants born alive after an attempted abortion receive the same protection of law and degree of care as any newborn.”

Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyoming, has said she supports the legislation and also reached out to March for Life participants over social media.

“Voting against protecting innocent babies that survive abortions is truly unfathomable,” she said on X. “As a grandmother, it breaks my heart.”

At The March

Tabitha Yaffe of Fort Meade, Maryland, who was attending with her children, told Cowboy State Daily she enjoyed the energy.

“It’s just positive and joyous,” said Yaffe, who lives on the Meade Army base between Baltimore and Washington with her military intelligence officer husband and their daughters Hannah, 10, and Rachel, 8. “Very kind people, but very passionate about the cause.”

Tony Koppers, 71, from the small town of Hancock in western Maryland's Appalachian Mountains, said he did not initially plan to attend.

"I was planning on doing something else, but this was more important," he said. "So I got a ride down with my pastor."

Jan Siegfried, the band leader for St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly, Virginia, said the march was important to "make a voice for those whose voices we can't hear.

Members of the high school band's drum line participated in the march.

The event included a rally and the march itself. The rally was held on part of the large rectangular lawn called the National Mall — a spot near the Washington Monument — followed by the march down nearby Constitution Avenue to the U.S. Capitol.

The rally featured speakers, including Vice President J.D. Vance and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota. President Donald Trump addressed the crowd in a video message.

Trump commended the marchers for their “extraordinary love and compassion for the unborn.”

The president also said it’s important to “stand up for precious little babies who cannot stand up for themselves. I am proud to be the first president to ever join you in person.”

He said he “was so proud to be a participant” in getting the Roe v. Wade decision reversed and promised to “stop the radical Democrat push” for abortion.

The rally was held inside a fenced-off perimeter on the mall, and rally-goers had to clear security checkpoints with metal detectors to get in. However, there were no checkpoints for participants in the march itself, nor for up-close viewers of the march.

All in all, the security presence was nothing compared to Inauguration Day. Also, D.C. was a lot warmer than it was on Inauguration Day with temperatures Friday in the mid-30s under mostly sunny skies and little to no wind,

No attendance estimate for this year's National March for Life was immediately available from organizers or government officials, though the number may easily have topped 100,000. The National Park Service, which issues permits for events on the mall, told Cowboy State Daily it does not estimate crowd sizes.