This week I will leave work and home behind and head to Washington, D.C., to take part in a public demonstration against the greatest human rights abuse of our times. 

As I have every year since I became president of Franciscan University of Steubenville, I will attend the March for Life with 500 of our students. Some of them have been participating in the March every year since they were infants themselves; others will attend for their first time. For all of us, it will be the chance to walk and pray together with Franciscan faculty, staff, and alumni and hundreds of thousands of others for an end to abortion and, indeed, for an end to what Pope St. John Paul II called “the conspiracy against life.”