Speaker Boehner Gives 'March For Life' Message In a special message to the annual anti-abortion protest March for Life, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) “Defending life, of course, is about much more than voting the right way or saying the right things, It’s about promoting a culture of life. It’s about understanding that abortion is a defining human rights issue of our time. Because human life is not an economic or political commodity, and no government on Earth has the right to treat it as such.”