The March for Life organization has announced a new theme and plan for upcoming events now that the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision has left the question of abortion up to the states.

“On Jan. 20 we will celebrate the 50th March for Life & the momentous overturn of Roe v Wade!” the group said in a tweet.

In 2023, the group’s focus will be on its “Next steps: Marching into a post-Roe America” theme.

“We’ll honor those who have gone before us making this historic victory possible, & we'll present the strategic plan -the NEXT STEPS- for building a culture of life in this moment in time.”

On a state level, Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life was responsible for promoting the national March for Life in 2022. MCCL was founded in 1968 and works “to secure protection for innocent human life from conception until natural death through education, legislation and political action.”

The National Catholic Register published an article about the national march, saying the 2023 one will end at the U.S. Capitol. In the past, marches went toward the Supreme Court.

“What we’d really like to do is celebrate the momentous victory of the overturn of Roe, (and) honor those who’ve marched before us,” Jeannie Mancini, president of the March for Life, said in the article.

She also said the national march will continue to happen every January in Washington, D.C. “Our largest group of participants in the March are students,” she said, and moving it to a different month “would be a very hard time for young people.”

“Roe and [the loss of] 63 million Americans is a scar in our culture’s history, in our country’s history and it’s not something that we’ll quickly move past,” she told the Register. “While we celebrate that we’re at this new moment… we will continue to march in January.”

The group will turn its attention to state and federal pro-life cases, including fighting to prevent the “Women’s Health Protection Act” that, if enacted, “would undo all the good work that’s happening at the state level and it would go way further than codifying Roe,” Mancini said.

March for Life also will continue promoting marches on state capitals, hoping to bring it to at least 20 states. Colts NFL coach Tony Dungy will speak at the March for Life 2023, along with Jonathan Roumie, who stars as Jesus in “The Chosen,” the Register article says.

The Catholic Church has opposed abortion for centuries, regardless of evolving biological theories about when exactly life begins, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The Catechism directs this: ”Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law" (No. 2271).