A March for Life event took place in north Texas with the vocal support of Texas gubernatorial candidate Don Huffines. 

The North Texas March for Life took place on Jan. 15.

"I am proud of the grassroots Texans planning to attend the March for Life in Dallas this year," Huffines said. "Pro-life activists have fought for decades to end the murder of children in our nation, but Republican politicians have let them down. When I am governor, I will totally outlaw abortion in Texas in all cases with no exceptions, and I won’t ask permission from the federal government."

The march took place at noon near the Cathedral Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and finished later near the Earle Cabell Federal Building, which is the location where the Roe v. Wade lawsuit was initially filed 50 years ago. Organizers and participants of this year's march wanted to communicate that the pro-life movement also supports women. The national March for Life will take place on Jan. 24 in Washington, D.C.

Nearly 3,000 people arrived at the march in spite of cold and snowy weather that day, meeting the event organizers' hopes for a large turnout. The first national March for Life took place in January 1974, after being planned by Nellie Gray. This was one year after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade court decision. Gray believed that there should be a March for Life each year until the Supreme Court's decision is reversed. 

Each year, hundreds of thousands of people show up to the march with many of them being young people in high school or college.