Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to fill the National Mall on Friday to protest the 40-year-old landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the first trimester.

Buses are shuttling in anti-abortion protesters from all over the country for the annual March for Life. Organizers predict many of them will be young people.

“We are expecting record-breaking crowds — 80% under the age of 20,” said Jeanne Monahan, president of the March for Life Education & Defense Fund. “Mostly teenagers come and we get a lot of high school groups.”

Sydney Goldstein, 16, of Charlotte, is heading to the march with about 30 students from her government class at Charlotte Christian School.

“I am going to speak for the babies that are dying every day that don’t have a voice to speak for themselves,” Goldstein said. “This is one way to voice my opinion because I cannot vote.”

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