US President Donald Trump, seeking to shore up evangelical support ahead of the November election, addressed the country's biggest annual anti-abortion rally on Friday as the Senate sat in judgment nearby at his impeachment trial.
"Unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House," Trump told tens of thousands of anti-abortion campaigners at the 47th "March for Life" on the National Mall.
Trump, the first president to address the annual event in person, assailed Democrats for supporting abortion rights and claimed that "religious liberty" was under attack.
"When it comes to abortion," the 73-year-old Republican president said,
"They are coming after me because I am fighting for you and we are fighting for those who have no voice," he told the crowd. "And we will win because we know how to win."
"Life begins at conception," Atkins told AFP. "We don't think you should destroy that."
"She wouldn't be here if her mother didn't choose the right path." Brayden Harris, 16, who came to Washington from Hershey, Pennsylvania, with the "pro-life" club of his school, said "abortion is wrong."