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Activists participate in the 2016 March for Life on January 22, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Getty)

Thousands of people are expected to participate in this years March for Life on January 27th in Washington, D.C.

The March for Life is an annual anti-abortion rally that takes place on or around the anniversary ofRoe v. Wade,the landmark 1974 Supreme Court decision that said a woman has a right to receive an abortion. This years rally has earned more attention than usual because the vice president of the United States, Mike Pence, will attend.

Heres what you need to know about the 2017 March for Life.

The March for Life begins at the grounds of the Washington Monument. (Getty)

The 2017 March for Life begins at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the grounds of the Washington Monument.

This rally portion of the event will last for one hour, with several politicians and religious figures speaking. At 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, the march itself will begin; it will go up Constitution Avenue to the Supreme Court and the Capitol Building.

At 3:00 p.m., protesters will listen totestimonies outside of the Supreme Court building.

Mike Pence and his wife Karen board Air Force Two on January 26, 2017. (Getty)

There are currently 11speakers lined up for the rally portion of the March for Life, with the biggest name being Vice President Mike Pence; he was just added to the event on Thursday morning. Vice PresidentPence has had a consistently pro-life record throughout his political career, especially when he was governor of Indiana; in 2016, he signed into lawHouse Bill 1337, which, among other restrictions, bars doctors from performing abortions for women who are seeking them due tofetal abnormalities. The lawwas later blocked by a federal judge.

This is the first time a vice president has ever attended the March for Life. No president has ever attended, although a few have delivered remarks remotely.

Also speaking will be Kellyanne Conway, senior counselor to President Donald Trump. She is the first woman to ever run a successful presidential campaign in the United States.

The rest of the days speakers will be:

Pro-life activists hold up signs at the 2016 March for Life event. (Getty)

The 2017 March for Life has a theme this year of The Power of One.On its social media pages, the organization has described this as the idea that one person can make a difference in the world and that babies that are aborted dont have the chance to do so.

Through its website, the March for Life has been asking participants to send in stories ofhow someonehas impacted them with the cause of life or how they personally made a difference in their community for life. Many of these submissions come from people who were put in a situation where they considered getting an abortion but decided against it.

One story, for example, is from a womanwho says she got pregnant at the age of 19 and went to Planned Parenthood to receive an abortion, but she says she instantly regretted it as soon as she took the first of two pills.

I looked online for help, but found nothing until I finally came across abortionpillreversal.com, she writes. The site offered a hotline number, and when I called, a nurse from a pregnancy center answered and explained that a regimen had just been released to reverse the abortion pill I had taken. I knew it wasnt certain to work, but I was desperate. She found (and I drove) to a doctor 2 hours away who began progesterone injections, which I continued for weeks, as we tried to save my baby.Despite the abortion clinic calling and saying that this would not work, I continued on with my pregnancy, and my second son, Zechariah, was born on 10/20/2013.

The March for Life has taken place every year since 1974. (Getty)

The March for Life has been taking place every year for the past four decades.

It was startedbyNellie Gray, with the first march taking place onJanuary 22, 1974, the one year anniversary ofRoe v. Wade.The event is usually held on the anniversary ofRoe v. Wade; this year it was pushed ahead a bit because of all of the inauguration events that took place last week.

The general goal of the march is always to advocate for the overturning ofRoe v. Wade,although some years there are more immediate causes to rally for, such as in 2009 when Congress introduced theFreedom of Choice Act, which would declare that every woman has the fundamental right to receive an abortion without restriction. This bill was not ultimately signed into law.

Although no president has ever appeared at the march in person, some previous Republican presidents have supported the event, and President Ronald Reagan and President George W. Bush spoke remotely.

The late Nellie Gray was the founder of the March for Life, an annual anti-abortion march in Washington D.C., timed for the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

While President Donald Trump himself wont be at the march tomorrow, he has spoken positively about the event in recent days, criticizing the media for covering the Womens March on Washington but not the March for Life.

The crowds were large, but you will have a large crowd on Friday, too, which is mostly pro-life people, Trump said in an interview with ABC News on Thursday. Youre going to have a lot of people coming Friday.And I will say this, and I didnt realize this, but I was told, you will have a very large crowd of people. I dont know as large or larger. Some people said it will be larger. Pro-life people and they say the press doesnt cover them.

Trump again mentioned the march during a speech at a Republican retreat in Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon, saying that the event will be huge and that the press wont cover it.

Its not clear how many people will turn out for the March for Life tomorrow;organizers told The New York Timesthey have no way of gauging how many will be there but that they estimate there will be tens of thousands.

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