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Jacqueline McClain stood on the sidewalk with her pink sign and a smile as thousands of people walked by Friday at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. The crowds were marching for children like her daughter: a baby conceived in rape and one whose life people often use to justify abortion. McClain and others with Save the 1, a pro-life organization dedicated to awareness and support for mothers and babies conceived in rape, held pink signs at the March for Life to remind people that every child’s life is valuable. McClain’s sign read: “Mother from rape. I love my child.” “Babies are babies, no matter how they’re conceived,” she said in an interview with Breitbart. McClain said she was raped at age 19 by a serial rapist and conceived her daughter. Although the abuse devastated her and abortions were available, McClain chose to raise her daughter on her own. “She was the life that I needed to move on,” she said. “I’m happy that I was not exploited by the abortion industry and told the lie that I could have a reset button. Her life made the difference for me.” Instead of adding to her trauma, McClain said her daughter gave her hope. “I was devastated, but my daughter gave me hope because she was life. It’s as simple as that,” she told Breitbart.

The trial for pro-life activist and Catholic father of seven Mark Houck started Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Gerald J. Pappert in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The Department of Justice is targeting Houck, who leads a nonprofit group that provides sidewalk counseling at abortion clinics in Philadelphia, over an incident from 2021 involving his then-12-year-old son at a Planned Parenthood abortion facility. The family says Houck, who’s been charged with violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, was defending his son from a harassing pro-abortion activist. Houck is facing 11 years behind bars and $350,000 in fines if convicted.“ This is a political prosecution,” said one of Houck’s attorneys, Peter Breen, Thomas More Society vice president. Breen added his client is innocent and the Biden DOJ moved against Houck to “send a message” to pro-life Americans. “And what’s clear from the Department of Justice at its highest levels, which is directing this case, [is] that they are trying to send a message to pro-life and people of faith: ‘Don’t mess with us,’” he said. “They want to intimidate — they want to cause good people like Mark to stop praying and counseling at the abortion clinics of our country. And that’s not going to happen.”

“Instead of funding Planned Parenthood, my bill will redirect this funding to community health centers that focus on healthy women, not killing babies”

Gunning concluded her speech by saying, “On behalf of all people with Down syndrome, especially those [whose] lives are threatened in the womb, we need you and you need us.”